Government of the Virgin Islands v. George Edwards

How courts have described this case

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• after termination of criminal proceedings, the government must show “that it had a legitimate reason not to return the property to the person from whom it was seized”
• “[A]n order is final if the essential character of the motion is for the return of property which is not intimately involved in the criminal process.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).