IN RE FORFEITURE OF $62,200 IN U.S. CUR.

No. 87-559.

531 So.2d 352 (1988)

In re FORFEITURE OF $62,200 IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY. Charlie James WRIGHT, Appellant, v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY & MOTOR VEHICLES, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied October 12, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Grass, Pensacola, for appellant.

Enoch J. Whitney, Gen. Counsel, and Judson M. Chapman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, Tallahassee, for appellee.


SMITH, Chief Judge.

Appellant, Charlie James Wright, seeks review of a final judgment of forfeiture of $62,200 in United States currency entered in favor of appellee, Florida Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles (seizing agency). We affirm for the reasons set out below.

On July 11, 1986, Barney J. Stallworth, a state highway trooper, stopped a rental car which was being driven at an excessive speed on Interstate 10 and in which appellant was a...

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