United States Tenth Circuit

Husband and wife's convictions for multiple counts of willingly making a false statement to a federal agency and immigration fraud are affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) defendants' conduct did not fall within the plain language of the immigration fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. section 1546(a); but 2) claims of insufficient evidence and that the court improperly admitted several significant documents are rejected.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/01/2008
• Published 10/02/2008

Judges

• McCONNELL, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, Chief Circuit Judge, BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• William D. Lunn, Tulsa, OK, for Defendant-Appellant James S. Phillips, Jr., Kari S. Schmidt, Conlee Schmidt & Emerson, LLP, Wichita, KS, for Defendant-Appellant Alicia Morales-Phillips., Brent I. Anderson, Assistant United States Attorney (Eric F. Melgren, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Wichita, KS, for Plaintiff-Appellee.