United States First Circuit

Absent allegations that mail delivery in a particular prison is unreliable, the government need only show, if the issue is contested, that notice of a forefeiture hearing was mailed to the prison in which the claimant was in fact being held.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/13/2000
• Published 11/13/2000

Judges

• BOUDIN, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and CASELLAS, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Darryl Whiting on brief pro se., Elizabeth L. Prevett, Federal Defender Office, with whom Leo T. Sorokin was on brief for the Federal Defender Office, Amicus Curiae., Richard L. Hoffman, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, was on brief for the United States.