United States v. Gwendolyn Fossett

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

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In 1987, appellant Gwendolyn Fossett pled guilty to the charge that she forged a check drawn on the United States Treasury, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 495 (1982). For this offense, appellant was sentenced to a five-year indeterminate term of incarceration. Appellant was first imprisoned at the federal correction institution in Lexington, Kentucky; she was later transferred to the Bannum Place, a community treatment center in Jacksonville, Florida. Appellant’s projected release date was September 10, 1988.

On June 22, 1988, two of appellant’s friends told her that she…