Legal Opinion
Pedro Cruz-Hernandez v. Funds in the Amount of $271,08
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 17, 2016No. 15-2857PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
When- Chicago police officers searched a van registered to Pedro Cruz-Hernandez, they found $271,080 in currency. They had a- warrant that was based on a drug dog’s alerting to the presence of drugs in the van,-but they found no drugs; The government nonetheless initiated a civil forfeiture action against the money, contending that it was derived from, or had been used to facilitate, drug trafficking. Pedro and his brother, Abraham Cruz-Hernandez, contested the forfeiture, maintaining that they had lawfully earned the money. The district court entered summary judgment in…
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