Sixth Circuit Rejects Automatic Cash Forfeiture In Drug Case

Defendant: Look, sure, I was just convicted of drug trafficking, and, yes, I testified that I deposited all my legitimate income in the bank while I kept all my drug-trafficking money in cash, and, okay fine, you found a bunch of cash in my house near my drugs and my scale and my notebooks meticulously documenting my drug-trafficking transactions, but that doesn't prove the cash is the proceeds of drug trafficking. District court: You're kidding, right? Forfeiture on everything. Sixth Circuit: Actually, he's right. Kinda. No kidding (as to some of the money).