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Pagination Table: RULES1

RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

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conditions reasonably necessary to preserve the prop-
erty’s value pending any appeal.

(4) Upon a party’s request in a case in which a jury
returns a verdict of guilty, the jury shall determine
whether the government has established the requisite
nexus between the property and the offense committed
by the defendant.

(c) Ancillary proceeding; ﬁnal order of forfeiture.

(1) If, as prescribed by statute, a third party ﬁles a
petition asserting an interest in the property to be for-
feited, the court shall conduct an ancillary proceeding
but no ancillary proceeding is required to the extent that
the forfeiture consists of a money judgment.

(A) In the ancillary proceeding, the court may, on
motion, dismiss the petition for lack of standing, for
failure to state a claim, or for any other lawful rea-
son. For purposes of the motion, the facts set forth
in the petition are assumed to be true.

(B) After disposing of any motion ﬁled under
Rule 32.2(c)(1)(A) and before conducting a hearing
on the petition, the court may permit the parties to
conduct discovery in accordance with the Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure if the court determines
that discovery is necessary or desirable to resolve
factual issues. When discovery ends, a party may
move for summary judgment under Rule 56 of the
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

(2) When the ancillary proceeding ends, the court
shall enter a ﬁnal order of forfeiture by amending the
preliminary order as necessary to account for any third-
party rights.
If no third party ﬁles a timely claim, the
preliminary order becomes the ﬁnal order of forfeiture,
if the court ﬁnds that the defendant (or any combination
of defendants convicted in the case) had an interest in
the property that is forfeitable under the applicable stat-
ute. The defendant may not object to the entry of the
ﬁnal order of forfeiture on the ground that the property