BERTIN v. U.S.

Docket No. 05-4503-cv.

478 F.3d 489 (2007)

Ibinga BERTIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 26, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ibinga Bertin, Miami, Florida, pro se.

Varuni Nelson, Assistant United States Attorney (Sarah Lum, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel; Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, on the brief), United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before JACOBS, Chief Judge, POOLER, Circuit Judge, and KORMAN, District Judge.


JACOBS, Chief Judge.

Ibinga Bertin, pro se, seeks return of personal effects that were seized when he was arrested. The district court dismissed Bertin's action because he failed to bring an administrative claim within the statute of limitations. We agree that Bertin's complaint is time-barred, though on different grounds than those relied upon by the district court.

Bertin was arrested on July 27, 1992; following...

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