United States Fifth Circuit

A determination that the government satisfied the Due Process Clause in notifying plaintiff of the administrative forfeiture of $13,000 seized from him upon his arrest for serious drug crimes is reversed and remanded where, on the record, the government failed to meet its burden to show that its notice was "reasonably calculated, under all the circumstances, to apprise" him of the forfeiture.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/29/2007
• Published 03/30/2007

Judges

• E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY, JOLLY and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Terrell Marta Taylor, Yazoo City, MS, pro se., Jerry L. Rushing, Gulfport, MS, for U.S.