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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF TNE NINE-
TEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR
ST. LUCIS COUNTY, FLORIDA.
CASE NO. 80-562-CA
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Petitioner,
vs.
ONE 1977 Chevrolet Corvette
VIN: 1Z37L7S403027;
ONE 1975 Cadillac Seville
VIN: 6S69R6Q510.913
and
ROBERT LIPPNER, Jr.,
Respondents.
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FINAL JUDGMENT
THIS CAUSE was heard before the_Court on December 24,
1980 on petition for rule to show cause. The essential facts
were stipulated by the parties and no testimony ~as taken. The
Court finds as follows:
The respondent, Robert Lippner, Jr., was the owner of
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two (2) vehicles, a 1977 Chevrolet Corvette and a 1976 Cadillac
Seville on March 28, 1980. On that date, Mr. Lippner was involved
in a conspiracy to import more than 5,000 pounds of marijuana into
the United States. By prearrangement, on March 29, 1980,-Mr.
Lippner and another co-conspirator drove in Mr. Lippner's Corvette
to the jetties in Fort Pierce, Florida and met with an informant
and undercover agent to discuss flying a DC-3 with.marijuana
aboard from Columbia to~Florida. The pilot, an undercover agent,
and they decided to go see the airplane involved and the landing
strip on the next day. This discussion for the conspiracy took
place more than one hundred feet from the Corvette. No contraband
was in the Corvette and no money exchanged hands in the Corvette.
Then, by prearrangement on March 30 or 31, 1980, the pilot met at
an airport in Fort Pierce with Mr. Lippner and another co-conspira-
tor. These three men got into Mr. Lippner's Cadillac Seville and
drove to another area in the airport less than one-half mile away
to an airplane, which they boarded and then flew over the site
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