UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
No. 95-50369
Summary Calendar
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
versus
LOUIS GEORGE BAGLIERE, JR.,
Defendant-Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court
For the Western District of Texas
(94-CR-95(1))
August 19, 1996
Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, JONES and SMITH, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
Louis George Bagliere, Jr. pled guilty to conspiracy to manufacture
methamphetamine, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. At the time of Bagliere’s arrest
the officers seized his vehicle and money and these items subsequently were
*
Pursuant to Local Rule 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be
published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in Local Rule
47.5.4.
forfeited to the government. Bagliere appeals, contending that his criminal
convictions and sentence constitute a violation of the double jeopardy clause of the
fifth amendment.
This argument is foreclosed by the very recent decision in which the
Supreme Court concluded that “in rem civil forfeitures are neither ‘punishment’ nor
criminal for purposes of the Double Jeopardy Clause.”1 Accordingly, this
assignment of error is meritless and the judgment appealed is AFFIRMED.
1
United States v. Ursery, 1996 WL 340815 at *16.
2