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$130,510.00 U.S. LAWFUL CURRENCY v. STATE

No. 06-07-00132-CV.

266 S.W.3d 169 (2008)

$130,510.00 IN U.S. LAWFUL CURRENCY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Decided September 12, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Troy A. Hornsby, Miller, James, Miller & Hornsby, LLP, Texarkana, for Appellant.

David Colley, Asst. Dist. Atty., Mount Pleasant, for Appellee.

Before MORRISS, C.J., CARTER and MOSELEY, JJ.

OPINION

Opinion by Chief Justice MORRISS.

$130,510.00 in cash belonging to Manuel Alvarez1 has been forfeited as contraband. That forfeiture was decreed based on circumstantial evidence of suspicious factors, including drug-dog alerts on the exterior of a pickup truck in which the cash was being transported and arguably on wrappings removed from that bundled cash. The trial court found the cash was contraband, in spite of evidence...

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