United States v. Eighteen Thousand Five Hundred & Five Dollars, & Ten Cents ($18,505.10)

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Charles and Vera Gill, Jr. from a judgment ordering forfeiture of certain property1 on the grounds that the items seized were used in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 881(a)(6) (Supp. IV 1980).2 The parties consented to trial before a United States magistrate3 and he held that all the defendant items were subject to forfeiture. We affirm.

The two major issues raised in this appeal are:

1) whether the delay of the government in instituting the forfeiture action violated claimants’ right to due process, and

2) whether 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) (Supp. IV 1980)4 utilized by…