United States v. Susan Carol Briggs

ON REHEARING

Before GOLDBERG, KING and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges. GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

We sua sponte grant rehearing and withdraw our prior opinion in this case, 920 F.2d 287 (5th Cir.1991), substituting the following:

Susan Briggs stole over $5 million dollars from her employers by initiating wire transfers from their accounts to hers and others. She pleaded guilty in 1986 to charges of bank fraud and transportation of stolen money and was sentenced to a total of thirty years’ imprisonment. Subsequently, in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, she challenged the validity of her guilty plea on the grounds…