U.S. v. REAL PROPERTY

No. 96-15663.

120 F.3d 947 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. REAL PROPERTY, TITLED IN THE NAMES OF GODFREY SOON BONG KANG AND DARRELL LEE, As Trustee, Tax Map Key Number 4-1-26-25, Lot 62-C, Being a Portion of Grant 13, 116 to Toshio Hasebe, also known as Fred Toshio Hasebe and Fumino Amimoto Hasebe, Defendant, Godfrey Soon Bong Kang, Claimant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 15, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul K. Au and Wayne H. Tashima, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the claimant-appellant.

Beverly Wee Sameshima, Assistant United States Attorney, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Before: REINHARDT, T.G. NELSON and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.


MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:

Claimant Godfrey Soon Bong Kang ("Kang") appeals the jury verdict and judgment of forfeiture of his one acre parcel of real property. The basis for the forfeiture was the use of the property to conduct an illegal gambling business in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1955. Kang challenges the forfeiture as barred by the statute of limitations, as premised on insufficient probable cause, and as a violation of the Excessive Fines

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