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U.S. v. DE LA MATA

No. 05-15793.

535 F.3d 1267 (2008)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Fred DE LA MATA, Manuel A. Calas, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 22, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Rogow, Bruce S. Rogow, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Anne R. Schultz, Jeanne Marie Mullenhoff, Asst. U.S. Atty., Stephen Schlessinger, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT and CARNES, Circuit Judges, and HODGES, District Judge.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

This case illustrates the problems the Government encounters when it deviates from the procedural and substantive rules governing criminal forfeiture by obtaining the defendants' promises to convey certain interests in property to the United States, in lieu of a forfeiture trial and sentence, and the defendants renege.

I.

A.

On December 16, 1992, a Southern District of Florida grand jury returned a fifty-nine count...

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