Legal Opinion
United States v. Betancourt
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 11, 2007No. 06-40266UnpublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM: *
Jose Betancourt appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the IRS on the question of whether his attorney, Baltazar Salazar, is entitled to attorney’s fees for his representation of Betancourt. For the following reasons, we AFFIRM.
I. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
Jose Betancourt was convicted of two counts of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. He was sentenced to serve 292 months in prison and to forfeit, inter alia, his fifty percent share of the…
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