Luis Mora v. United States

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• holding that the court has jurisdiction to provide an equi- table remedy under what is now Rule 41(g) if the govern- ment loses property seized during a criminal investigation
• holding that the court has jurisdiction to provide an equi- table remedy under what is now Rule 41(g) if the govern- ment loses property seized during a criminal investigation
• explaining that, when the government denies possession of a claimant’s property, a finding of whether the government actually retains it and, if not, what happened to it, is a necessary predicate to deciding a motion for the return of property
• the government can be liable for damages “when [it] gives away, loses or destroys a prisoner’s property”
• dismissal inappropriate where Government did not account for all of petitioner’s property in its affidavits, log entries or other evidence
• district court retains jurisdiction “so long as necessary to afford appropriate relief to the movant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).