Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert Nelson Howell
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 19, 2004No. 03-1688PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Two years after being sentenced to prison, and to forfeit $7 million, as punishment for a federal drug offense, Robert Howell filed under the same case number of his criminal case and in the same court (the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois) a petition for the return of his BMW, which the Drug Enforcement Authority had seized in the Northern District of Illinois before he was convicted in the Southern District and had administratively forfeited (that is, had declared forfeited to the government without a judicial forfeiture ruling). Howell claimed…
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