United States Tenth Circuit

In a criminal matter involving a defendant who worked as a federal immigration employee responsible for the intake of certain immigration applications, and who kept the accompanying fees but threw the applications in the trash, a sentence for embezzlement of government funds in excess of $1,000 is reversed and remanded where defendant's position lacked the authority and discretion required for the abuse of public trust sentence enhancement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2007
• Published 06/27/2007

Judges

• TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge., Before TYMKOVICH, EBEL, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lynn C. Hartfield, Assistant Federal Public Defender (Raymond P. Moore, Federal Public Defender, with her on the briefs), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Denver, CO, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James C. Murphy, Assistant United States Attorney (Troy A. Eid, United States Attorney, and Kathleen L. Torres, Assistant United States Attorney, with him on the brief) Office of the United States Attorney, Denver, CO, for Appellee.