United States of America Victor Sherman, Claimant-Appellant v. U.S. Currency, $584,091.00

952 F.2d 1400 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. UNITED STATES of America Plaintiff-Appellee, Victor Sherman, Claimant-Appellant, v. U.S. CURRENCY, $584,091.00, Defendant. No. 90-56179. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Nov. 8, 1991. Decided Jan. 13, 1992. Before SNEED, BOOCHEVER and BEEZER, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 This case involves exclusion of attorney's fees from forfeiture under the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, 21 U.S.C. § 881 (1988). Victor Sherman seeks to exclude $18,350 as attorney's fees from $584,091 seized as drug money. The district court denied his claim and ordered all the money forfeited to the United States. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm. 3 * Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs seized 30 kilograms of cocaine and $584,091 as a result of an investigation of several men, including Carlos Arbelez, suspected of clandestine drug…