Case ID: so2d_830/html/0277-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Gustavo Bautista ORTIZ and Edgar Sanchez, Appellants, v. In re FORFEITURE OF $341,675.00, et al., Appellees.
    No. 3D01-3466.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Nov. 20, 2002.
    G. Richard Strafer, for appellants.
    Adorno & Yoss and John Arrastia, Jr.; Katherine Fernandez Rundle, State Attorney and Steven Ellison, Assistant State Attorney, for appellees.
    Before JORGENSON, GODERICH, and GREEN, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

The respondents below appeal from the trial court’s order granting summary judgment on the City of Coral Gables Police Department’s petition for - forfeiture of funds seized for alleged money laundering. We affirm.

In a comprehensive and well-reasoned ten-page order; the trial court addressed each of the respondents’ arguments and referred to the testimony of the petitioners and their own expert. The court properly determined that there was an absence of a genuine issue of material fact and that the City of Coral Gables was' entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Accordingly, the summary judgment is

AFFIRMED.