UNITED STATES v. PARR

No. 78-2125.

594 F.2d 440 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George B. PARR, Defendant, Mary Elizabeth Ellis Saenz, Intervenor-Appellant, Clinton Manges, Surety, Movant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 3, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. E. Lopez, Jr., A Professional Corp., Alice, Tex., for Saenz.

Raul Garcia, Alice, Tex., for Manges.

J. A. Canales, U. S. Atty., James R. Gough, George A. Kelt, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and AINSWORTH and DYER, Circuit Judges.


DYER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to take a second look at the judgment of the district court reaffirming a forfeiture of $75,000 bail with a remission of $35,000 of the forfeiture to a third party Manges.1 We conclude that a forfeiture in excess of $10,000.00 is an abuse of discretion and therefore vacate and remand with directions to remit the balance of the forfeiture of $65,000.00 to Manges.

The facts are set forth...

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