United States First Circuit

Conviction for identity theft is affirmed over defendant's arguments that: 1) certain evidence admitted at trial should have been excluded for want of relevance or because it was unduly prejudicial; 2) the term "person" in the statute defining aggravated identity theft refers only to the living; and 3) the statute is sufficiently ambiguous to require reversal under the rule of lenity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/31/2007
• Published 10/31/2007

Judges

• HOWARD, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and DELGADO-COLÓN, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey L. Baler for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• B. Stephanie Siegmann, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.