Mason v. Griffin-Valade

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that jeopardy does not attach until a defendant is “put to trial before a trier of facts”
• noting that “[i]ndividuals cannot totally rely on protective orders” as there is always a risk of a leak, they are subject to modification, and often serve only as stopgap measures pending future release
• because defendant never became a party to forfeiture proceeding, he never was placed in jeopardy
• “[Administrative forfeiture is, in reality, a non-proceeding — it is merely the consequence of no one having come forward to claim the property seized or contest its forfeitability”
• “Even if we were to assume, arguendo, that [the defendant] was the owner of the seized and forfeited money, ... we do not agree that administrative forfeitures place in jeopardy the person whose property is so forfeited.”
• property administratively forfeited “ownerless” as a matter of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).