United States Eleventh Circuit

In an appeal from a district court decision ordering the forfeiture, under the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act, of a Beechcraft airplane to which appellant held legal title, the order is affirmed where the district court did not err in drawing credibility determinations and inferences against appellant and in favor of the government and, on that basis, determining that appellant did not meet its burden of proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, that it, rather than a third party, exercised any dominion or control at all.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/14/2010
• Published 09/14/2010

Judges

• Rosemary C. Barkett

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel