UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Leon Durwood HARVEY, Defendant-Appellant,
v.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS (NACDL); National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA); and American Bar Association (Aba), Amicus Curiae.
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
CAPLIN & DRYSDALE, CHARTERED, Claimant-Appellee, and
Christopher F. Reckmeyer, II; Robert Bruce Reckmeyer, Defendants.
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Ronald Burnell BASSETT a/k/a Ronnie Bump, a/k/a the Kid, a/k/a Zachary Jackson, a/k/a Ronald Jackson, a/k/a Beamon Jackson, a/k/a Ronald Jones, a/k/a R.F. Jones, a/k/a Beamon West, a/k/a Harry VanDyke, a/k/a The Bird; Clarence Meredith a/k/a Yo, a/k/a Magic, a/k/a Houdini, a/k/a Uncle Willie, Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued September 4, 1986.
Decided March 6, 1987.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Samuel Rosenthal, Chief, Appellate Section, Criminal Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice (Stephen S. Trott, Asst. Atty. Gen., Criminal Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Henry E. Hudson, III, U.S. Atty., E.D. Va., Alexandria, Va., Breckinridge L. Willcox, U.S. Atty., Dist. of Md., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for the U.S.
Peter Van N. Lockwood (Graeme W. Bush, Steven D. Arkin, Julia L. Porter, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, Washington, D.C., on brief), for claimant-appellee Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered.
John L. Pollok (Charles L. Weintraub, Mark A. Summers, Hoffman Pollok & Gasthalter, New York City, on brief), for defendants-appellees Bassett and Meredith.
John Kenneth Zwerling (John Flowers Mark, Michael S. Lieberman, Zwerling, Mark, Ginsberg & Lieberman, Alexandria, Va., P.C., on brief), for defendant-appellant Leon D. Harvey.
(Eugene C. Thomas, President, American Bar Ass'n, Charles G. Cole, Steven H. Goldblatt, Terrance G. Reed, Washington, D.C., on brief), for amicus curiae The American Bar Ass'n.
(Peter Cohen, Washington, D.C., on brief), for amicus curiae Nat. Legal Aid and Defender Ass'n.
Before PHILLIPS, ERVIN and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:
These three cases, consolidated for purposes of appeal, present important issues respecting the forfeiture provisions of the Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984, ch. 3, Pub.L. No. 98-473, §§ 301 et seq., 98 Stat.1976 (1984) (the Act) (codified at 18 U.S.C. § 1963 (RICO) and 21 U.S.C. §§ 848, 853 (CCE)).
In two of the cases, Nos. 86-5069 and 86-5050, the government appeals district court...
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