WILLIS v. BOYD

No. 20-2047.

993 F.3d 545 (2021)

Carrie S. WILLIS, individually and as trustee of the Trust of James C. and Norma D. Willis, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stephen BOYD; Jason Brushwood; Missouri Highway Patrol; Sergeant D Nash; The City of Farmington, New Mexico, doing business as Farmington Police Department; Detective Corporal Russell Bradford, Defendants. United States of America, Defendant-Appellant, Robert Jackson, IRS Special Agent, individually and in his official capacity; Scott Wells, IRS Special Agent, individually and in his official capacity, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: April 2, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey P. Ray , Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, MO, argued ( Timothy A. Garrison , U.S. Atty., Cari Franke Walsh , Asst. U.S. Atty., on the brief), for defendant-appellant United States of America.

Grant S. Rahmeyer , Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C., Springfield, MO, argued ( Steve B. Garner , Jeffrey M. Bauer , Jacob A. Lewis , Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C., Springfield, MO, Allan L. Wainwright , Law Office of Allan Wainwright, Albuquerque, NM, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before SMITH, Chief Judge, ARNOLD and STRAS, Circuit Judges.


This is a case of mistaken identity, though not of the usual kind. During the search of Carrie Willis's home, police seized a large number of coins and passed them along to the Internal Revenue Service. An IRS agent deposited the coins at their face value into an IRS account and later remitted the amount to Willis. She maintains...

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