Legal Opinion
United States v. Fleet
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 5, 2007No. 06-12454PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the issue of whether the substitute property provision of the federal criminal forfeiture statute, 21 U.S.C. § 853(p), preempts the homestead exemption contained in the Florida Constitution and that state’s tenancy by the en-tireties law.
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In October 2005 a jury found David Fleet guilty on twenty-one counts in a multi-count superceding indictment stemming from his role in a fraudulent land-swap arrangement that bilked two unwitting investors out of more than 11 million dollars. The counts for which Fleet was convicted included charges of wire fraud,…
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