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ASARE v. U.S. PAROLE COM'N

No. 92-2149.

2 F.3d 540 (1993)

Comfort ASARE, Reg. No. 03671-000, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 20, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard A. Kaplan, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Charleston, WV, argued (Hunt L. Charach, Federal Public Defender, on brief), for petitioner.

Michael Alexander Stover, Gen. Counsel, U.S. Parole Comm'n, Chevy Chase, MD, argued (Richard K. Preston, on brief), for respondent.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, and MURNAGHAN and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges.

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....

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