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Friday, April 19, 2024 | Back issues
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Whose money?

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit found that neither the federal government nor a man with a history of robbing Las Vegas businesses is entitled to $63,513 seized from him in 2014 and 2017. The 2014 prosecution of the man failed because of prosecutorial misconduct “and the government apparently never thought to bring a civil forfeiture action” against him for either seizure.

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Criminal, Government

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