United States v. McCollum

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

KOPF, District Judge.

This is a quirky case involving a criminal forfeiture. It presents the government’s understandable desire to disrupt the use of guns and drugs and the equally understandable desire of a strong-willed, elderly woman to preserve the legitimate legacy of her deceased, but much loved husband.

Wanda L. McCollum, appearing pro se, 1 asserts that the government may not deprive her of a gun collection that she inherited from her husband even though it was possessed by her ne’re-do-well son, a recently convicted felon who has agreed to the forfeiture. In…