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[DO NOT PUBLISH]
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
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No. 13-13719
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D.C. Docket No. 1:12-cv-23588-PCH
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
versus
SILA LUIS,
Defendant - Appellant,
ELSA RUIZ, et al.,
Defendants.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Florida
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(June 16, 2016)
ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE UNITED STATES
Before MARTIN, DUBINA and SENTELLE, * Circuit Judges.
*
Honorable David Bryan Sentelle, United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia
Circuit sitting by designation.
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PER CURIAM:
This case returns to us on remand from the Supreme Court of the United States.
Luis v. United States, 578 U.S. at ___, 136 S. Ct. 1083 (2016). In our earlier opinion,
we affirmed the district court’s finding that there was no Sixth Amendment right to
use untainted, substitute assets to hire counsel. See Luis v. United States, 564 F.
App’x 493, 494 (2014) (per curiam). The Supreme Court granted a petition for writ
of certiorari and vacated our judgment, holding that a defendant “has a Sixth
Amendment right to use her own ‘innocent’ property to pay a reasonable fee for the
assistance of counsel.” Luis, 578 U.S. at ___, 136 S. Ct. at 1096 (2016) (plurality
opinion). Accordingly, based on the judgment of the Supreme Court, we now vacate
the district court’s order granting the government’s motion for a preliminary
injunction and remand this case to the district court for further proceedings consistent
with the Supreme Court’s opinion.
VACATED AND REMANDED.
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