United States v. Monsanto

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1989-06-22

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Justice White delivered the opinion of the Court. The questions presented here are whether the federal drug forfeiture statute authorizes a district court to enter a pretrial order freezing assets in a defendant’s possession, even where the defendant seeks to use those assets to pay an attorney; if so, we must decide whether such an order is permissible under the Co…

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