Circuit split widens: Ninth Circuit on “aggravated identity theft”

“Today we join the D.C. Circuit in holding that the crime of aggravated
identity theft, 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), requires proof that, among other
things, the defendant knew that the means of identification belonged to
another person. It is not enough to prove only that the defendant knew he
was using a false document.”

U.S. v. Miranda-Lopez, July 17, 2008.

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