Legal Opinion
United States v. Arreola-Ramos
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 20, 1995No. 94-10967PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-Appellant Omar Arreola-Ra-mos (Arreola) faces a criminal drug trial. With this interlocutory appeal, he seeks to bar that trial on double jeopardy grounds. Although a non-party to a civil forfeiture proceeding, Arreola here asserts that the forfeited funds (Funds) were his; that he received no notice of the forfeiture; that the forfeiture of the Funds violates his due process rights; and that forfeiture of the Funds in his absence therefore constitutes former jeopardy. As a result, he argues, his pending indictment — arising as it does out of the same alleged…
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