U.S. v. MARITIME LIFE CARIBBEAN LTD.

No. 17-10889.

913 F.3d 1027 (2019)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MARITIME LIFE CARIBBEAN LIMITED, Interested Party-Appellant. Raul J. Gutierrez, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 16, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Benjamin Cornell , William H. Beckerleg, Jr. , U.S. Attorney's Office, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, Daniel Matzkin , Maureen Donlan , Richard Daniel Gregorie, Madeleine R. Shirley , Emily M. Smachetti , Elizabeth Ruf Stein , U.S. Attorney Service — Southern District of Florida, U.S. Attorney Service — SFL, MIAMI, FL, Gregory S. Grossman , Arnoldo B. Lacayo , Adrian Nunez , Sequor Law, PA, MIAMI, FL, for Plaintiff - Appellee.

William Vito Roppolo, Jr. , Jose Alfredo Avila , Benjamin Cody Davis , Jodi Ann Pandolfi , Baker & McKenzie, LLP, MIAMI, FL, Kyle Richard Olson , Michael A. Pollard , Baker & McKenzie, LLP, CHICAGO, IL, for Interested Party - Appellant.

Edward H. Davis, Jr. , Sequor Law, PA, MIAMI, FL, Bruce M. Lyons , Lyons & Sanders, Chartered, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, William M. Norris , William M. Norris, PA, MIAMI, FL, Guy Spiegelman , Guy Spiegelman Law Office, MIAMI, FL, for Defendant RAUL J. GUTIERREZ.

Before WILLIAM PRYOR and MARTIN, Circuit Judges, and WOOD, District Judge.


This appeal involves two questions about an ancillary third-party forfeiture proceeding in which Maritime Life Caribbean asserted that it was given a security interest in the forfeited property: whether the district court erred in requiring Maritime Life to prove the authenticity of the collateral assignment that allegedly...

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