asset-forfeiture

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6244 Darrell Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process legal-representation representative-counsel Can companies be prosecuted without representative counsel when untainted assets are stripped, and do they qualify for the same constitutional protect…
24A656 Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-01-02 Presumed Complete asset-forfeiture criminal-restitution district-court-order federal-court retirement-assets sentencing-judgment Whether a federal district court may order the turnover of a defendant's retirement assets to satisfy a criminal restitution judgment
23-5365 Marcus Roosevelt Taylor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-proceeds drug-trafficking due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act restitution restitution-order Whether the $228,304 restitution order infringes upon Marcus Taylor's constitutional rights
22-1065 John Paul Gosney, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived asset-forfeiture asset-restraint counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-order forfeiture-statute grand-jury right-to-counsel traceability Whether United States v. Monsanto, 491 U.S. 600 (1989), and/or Kaley v. United States, 571 U.S. 320 (2014), should be overruled or at least modified
22-7391 Joshua G. Stegemann v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was the lawyer's advice objectively unreasonable under the Sixth Amendment's guarantee to effective assistance of counsel?
22-6419 Brian Wright v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture cash-seizure civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure property-rights rule-41g Should Mr. Wright be allowed a return of his seized cash?
21-6537 Stephen Condon Peters v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture asset-restraint counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process financial-conflict luis-v-united-states right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does it violate the Sixth Amendment where the trial court deprives a defendant of the use of untainted assets without following proper procedure, and …
21-759 WeBuildTheWall, Inc. v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-22 Dismissed appeal appellate-jurisdiction asset-forfeiture asset-restraint criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-order forfeiture-statute injunction standing Can a non-party whose assets were restrained by a District Judge presiding over a criminal case, and who was blocked from a timely opportunity to be h…
20-1656 Carmen Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response Waived asset-forfeiture civil-rights coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance restitution supervised-release May an individual challenge non-custodial aspects of a criminal judgment through a petition for writ of error coram nobis?
20-7229 Wanda Tubbs v. Jeff Long, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Tennessee 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-error constitutional-law due-process litigation-rights motion-to-suppress standing tennessee-courts Did the Tennessee courts violate due process by failing to let Wanda Tubbs litigate a motion to suppress in an asset forfeiture case?
20-6912 Roy L. Rambo, Jr. v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice due-process pretrial-restraint retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did this Court's holding in Luis v. United States simply clarify a Federal civil asset forfeiture statute
19-7597 Robert William Wazney v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-02-07 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP asset-forfeiture asset-freezing constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-process pre-trial-restraint state-corrective-process Whether petitioner Robert William Wazney was imprisoned in violation of the Constitution of the United States
19-7196 Mark D. Zimmerman v. Texas Texas 2020-01-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process incarceration judicial-discretion legal-resources pro-se standing state-courts supervisory-power Whether the lower state court erred in sanctioning the petitioner's departure from the accepted judicial proceedings regarding the decision governing …
19-392 Martin A. Armstrong v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) asset-forfeiture asset-freezing civil-enforcement constitutional-right-to-counsel counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process parallel-civil-enforcement parallel-proceedings personal-property property-rights right-to-counsel Whether the constitutional right to counsel of choice extends to cases where a criminal defendant's assets are frozen as part of a parallel civil enfo…
19-5938 Jason Bo-Alan Beckman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture asset-freezing civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-counsel criminal-procedure due-process errors-and-omissions errors-and-omissions-policy forfeiture-rights luis-v-united-states right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Can the Government circumvent Luis v. United States protections
18-8139 Louis A. Hardison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-procedure-forfeiture due-process federal-adoption federal-jurisdiction forfeiture in-rem-jurisdiction ineffective-counsel missouri-forfeiture-laws missouri-statute state-federal-jurisdiction state-law turnover-order Whether Missouri statute RSMO 513.607-613.647 provides exclusive in rem jurisdiction over seized property even when state and local government fail to…
18-405 Shabnam Dastmalchian v. Department of Justice, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response Waived asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-immunity government-overreach government-seizure innocent-third-party property-rights takings third-party-property Whether the interplay of the Constitution, Fed.R.Crim.P.7(c)(2), and 21 U.S.C. § 853 allow government employees to seize an innocent third party Calif…