United States First Circuit

The U.S. Customs Service's seizure of a boat belonging to the plaintiff on the ground that a culpable connection existed between the boat and certain money laundering and drug-trafficking activities violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/27/2003
• Published 06/27/2003

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Luis Gines-Perez on brief pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• H.S. Garcia, United States Attorney, Miguel Fernandez, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Civil Division, and Jose Javier Santos Mimoso, Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.