Commonwealth v. Sinanan, A.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Puerto Rico is subject to the Due Process Clause of either the Fifth or Fourteenth Amendments
• holding that the government could seize yacht subject to civil forfeiture without prior notice and hearing
• recognizing that seizure for the purpose of forfeiture “presents an ‘extraordinary’ situation in which postponement of notice and hearing until after seizure [does] not deny due process”
• holding that forfeiture of a yacht, after police found marijuana on board, was not unconstitutional even though owner-lessor of yacht was totally innocent and unaware of presence of drugs
• holding that forfeiture of a yacht, after police found marijuana on board, was not unconstitutional even though owner-lessor of yacht was totally innocent and unaware of presence of drugs
• holding that exigent circumstances permitted the permanent governmental seizure of a yacht used in drug trafficking without a pre-seizure hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).