United States v. Flowers

OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

Defendant Kimberly Lashun Flowers pled guilty to one count of passing a forged United States Treasury check in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 510(a)(2). Flowers entered her plea pursuant to an agreement with the government according to which the government would recommend a sentence of monitored home confinement rather than imprisonment. At sentencing, the United States Probation Department announced that, due to new financial constraints resulting from the sequestration of federal funds, the department would require Flowers to pay the cost of the monitoring…