United States v. Gordon Franklin, Jr.

COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.

Gordon Franklin, Jr., appeals the district court’s 1 revocation of his conditional release from mental health commitment under 18 U.S.C. § 4246. We affirm.

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Franklin was first involuntarily hospitalized due to mental disease or defect on February 1, 1991. He was conditionally released in 1993, but his release was revoked later that year. In 2003, the United States moved for Franklin’s conditional release based on the government’s conclusion that Franklin had recovered from his mental disease or defect to such an extent that his conditional release would be appropriate,…