United States v. Fred Lambert

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

Lambert, the appellant, was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 10011 and sentenced to two years imprisonment for making a false statement to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He had come to the FBI of his own volition to make a complaint. Following an interview he signed a written statement in which he claimed that two Tampa, Florida, police officers had physically mistreated him. Also, he stated his “feeling” that his civil rights had been violated because the two officers, in plain clothes, had arrested him for no reason. The statement was intended to, and did, trigger an…