U.S. v. SCHIFFERLI

No. 88-7826.

895 F.2d 987 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. H. Allan SCHIFFERLI; Ann G. Schifferli, Claimants-Appellants, and One Piece of Real Property, Located on Trafalgar Street in the City and County of Aiken, South Carolina, with all improvements thereon, and with all rights and easements appertaining; Defendant, George Crawford, Claimant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 12, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Hoyt Rowell, III, Charleston, S.C., (Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Barnwell, S.C., on brief), for claimants-appellants.

John Berkley Grimball, II, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Vinton D. Lide, U.S. Atty., Columbia, S.C., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, CHAPMAN and WILKINS, Circuit Judges.


CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:

The issue is whether Dr. H. Allan Schifferli's ("Schifferli") property, consisting of an office building and land, was substantially connected to the commission of several drug offenses, of which he was convicted, making such property forfeitable to the United States under 21 U.S.C. § 881(a)(7) (West 1987). The district court, 700 F.Supp. 857, held that this property facilitated Schifferli's crimes...

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