Legal Opinion
Ibinga Bertin v. United States of America, Docket No. 05-4503-Cv
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 26, 2007No. 489PublishedCited by 287 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Chief Judge.
Ibinga Bertin, pro se, seeks return of personal effects that were seized when he was arrested. The district court dismissed Bertin’s action because he failed to bring an administrative claim within the statute of limitations. We agree that Bertin’s complaint is time-barred, though on different grounds than those relied upon by the district court.
Bertin was arrested on July 27, 1992; following detention by federal customs officials at JFK Airport in Queens, New York, he passed balloons filled with heroin. Ber-tin pled guilty to one count of importing heroin in violation of…
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