Comfort Asare, Reg. No. 03671-000 v. United States Parole Commission

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

Comfort Asare, a naturalized citizen of the United States born in Accra, Ghana, was arrested on October 27, 1989, at Gatwick Airport in London, England, while en route from Ghana to Washington, D.C., when British customs authorities discovered 486 grams of diamorphine (heroin) in the lining of her handbag. She was convicted in England of attempting to import heroin and sentenced to a six-year term of imprisonment. On March 19, 1990, after receiving her sentence, Asare invoked the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, a 1983 treaty to which both the…