U.S. v. REAL PROPERTY, AT 221 DANA AVE., HYDE PARK

No. 00-1665.

261 F.3d 65 (2001)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. REAL PROPERTY, BUILDINGS, APPURTENANCES AND IMPROVEMENTS LOCATED AT 221 DANA AVENUE, HYDE PARK, MASSACHUSETTS, Defendant, Appellant, and Kathleen Gass, Claimant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

August 17, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian M. McMahon for claimant-appellant.

Jennifer Hay Zacks, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom James B. Farmer, United States Attorney, and Suzanne E. Durrell, Nancy Rue, and Shelbey Wright, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on brief, for appellee.

Before Boudin, Chief Judge, LYNCH and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Kathleen Gass seeks to stop the government from seizing her family home at 221 Dana Avenue, in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. The government seeks to take the property by forfeiture because Kathleen Gass' late husband, William Gass, used a portion of it for his side business as a drug dealer, unbeknownst to his wife and child. Mrs. Gass first learned her husband had used the ground floor apartment for cocaine deals on the day the government arrested...

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