MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
EARL E. O'CONNOR, District Judge.
This matter is before the court on defendant Raphael Peña's motion to dismiss the indictment based on double jeopardy grounds (Doc. # 187). Defendant maintains that his criminal prosecution in federal court, following civil forfeitures of property in state court, constitutes a successive effort to impose punishment for the same offense, in violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth...
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