COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case poses an interesting problem of res judicata: does a dismissal with prejudice of a civil forfeiture action bar the subsequent criminal forfeiture of the same properties by the same sovereign? The district court ruled that a civil dismissal has preclusive effect, and it thereby rebuffed the government's attempt to confiscate nine properties otherwise forfeitable because of their connection to drug trafficking and money...
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