Notice: Fourth Circuit Local Rule 36(c) States That Citation of Unpublished Dispositions is Disfavored Except for Establishing Res Judicata, Estoppel, or the Law of the Case and Requires Service of Copies of Cited Unpublished Dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.united States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Leroy Ragin, Defendant-appellant, 106 F.3d 393 (4th Cir. 1997)

Leroy Ragin appeals the district court's order dismissing his motion filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1994), amended by Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214. We affirm.

Ragin contends that because he was subjected to both criminal penalties and the civil forfeiture of his real property, his conviction violated the Double Jeopardy Clause. We note initially that Ragin's property was forfeited pursuant to a consent judgment, but further review of the record reveals that it was seized as forfeitable under 21 U.S.C. § 881(a) (7) (1994), a statute found categorically not to constitute criminal punishment for purposes of the Double Jeopardy Clause. United States v. Ursery, --- U.S. ---, 64 U.S.L.W. 4565, 4572 (U.S. June 24, 1996) (Nos.95-345, 95-346). For these reasons, we affirm the district court's dismissal of Ragin's motion. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED.