California Court of Appeal

Conviction of defendant for multiple counts of unlawful use of personal identifying information, burglary, grand theft, multiple counts of forgery for possessing completed checks with the intent to defraud, and other crimes, arising from his involvement in an identity theft ring, is reversed in part where: 1) convictions on 24 of the 27 counts of forgery for possessing completed checks with intent to defraud are reversed as the checks were from three issuers and defendant has thus violated the financial autonomy of three victims and committed forgery once for each victim; 2) section 654 does not mandate staying any of the three convictions for forgery; and 3) since possession of the checks violated the autonomy of the three issuers, as the means toward fraud, the three convictions are appropriate.

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• Decided 05/06/2010
• Published 05/06/2010

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• California Court of Appeal

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