Morales v. in re For.

Full title: OSCAR MORALES, Appellant, vs. IN RE: FORFEITURE OF $220,000.00, etc.…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Sep 8, 1999

739 So. 2d 709 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)

Opinion

No. 98-3149.

Opinion filed September 8, 1999.

An Appeal from a nonfinal order of the Circuit Court for Dade County, Jon I. Gordon, Judge, L.T. No. 98-22207.

Victor E. Rocha; Bruce H. Fleisher, for appellant.

Robert S. Glazier and Stephen V. Ciaglia; Katherine Fernandez Rundle, State Attorney, and Israel Reyes, Assistant State Attorney, for appellee.

Before JORGENSON, GERSTEN, and GREEN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Munoz v. City of Coral Gables, 695 So.2d 1283 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997) (holding that mere possession of currency is not legally determinative of possessory or ownership interest and is not sufficient to establish standing to contest civil forfeiture); United States v. $321,470.00 in U.S. Currency, 874 F.2d 298, 304 (5th Cir. 1989) ("Unexplained naked possession of a cash hoard . . . does not rise to the level of the possessory interest requisite for standing to attack the forfeiture proceeding.").