OPINION
JACOBSON, Presiding Judge.
The basic issue raised by this appeal from the forfeiture of a vehicle used in a narcotics violation is whether the denial of a motion to suppress evidence, based upon an allegedly illegal search and seizure in the underlying criminal action operates as a bar, under the principles of collateral estoppel, to relitigating the legality of the search and seizure in the forfeiture proceedings.
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