United States Tenth Circuit

The innocent owner defense to civil forfeiture under 21 USC 881(a)(7) only requires that the property owner acted reasonably under the particular circumstances confronted by the property owner and does not require all reasonable steps in the abstract.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/09/2001
• Published 07/09/2001

Judges

• HENRY, Circuit Judge., Before EBEL and HENRY, Circuit Judges, and ROGERS, District Judge .

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ahmad Assed (Debrah Davidson and Laura Hague, with him on the briefs), Albuquerque, NM, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen R. Kotz, Assistant United States Attorney (Norman C. Bay, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Office of the United States Attorney, Albuquerque, NM, for the Appellee.