United States Eleventh Circuit

The statute of limitations for civil forfeiture, 19 USC 1621, does not begin to run until the government discovers that defendant properties were purchased with or involve proceeds connected to criminal drug activity rather than when the government "should have known".

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/29/2001
• Published 05/29/2001

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and VINING, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Shirley McCarty, Asst. U.S. Atty., James D. Ingram, Herbert H. Henry, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Victoria D. Little, Decatur, GA, for Claimant-Appellee.