Legal Opinion
United States v. William Chamberlain
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided August 18, 2017No. 16-4313PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WYNN, Circuit Judge:
This case calls upon us to reconsider our anomalous rule permitting the pretrial restraint of a defendant’s innocent property pursuant to the federal criminal forfeiture statute, 21 U.S.C. § 853. Arguing that the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Luis v. United States, — U.S. -, 136 S.Ct. 1083, 194 L.Ed.2d 256 (2016), undermined the jurisprudential foundation of our earlier decisions interpreting that statute, Defendant William Chamberlain asks us to abandon our existing rule and join our sister circuits in holding that Section 853 does not authorize such restraint. For…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- United States v. MonsantoSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Honeycutt v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2017
- Luis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2016
- United States v. Gary D. Bollin, United States of America v. Ernst N. Tietjen, United States of America v. James GormleyCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2001
- United States v. JarvisCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2007
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