United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's conviction for falsely impersonating an officer or employee of the U.S. is affirmed where: 1) a reasonable jury could infer that defendant intended for his unsolicited lie to a state police officer to result in reducing his girlfriend's ticket to a warning; and 2) 18 U.S.C. section 912 did not require defendant to obtain something of value through the impersonation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/23/2010
• Published 02/23/2010

Judges

• KELLY, Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, BALDOCK, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Nammar, Special Assistant United States Attorney (and Gregory J. Fouratt, United States Attorney, on the brief), Las Cruces, NM, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Dennis Candelaria, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Las Cruces, NM, for Defendant-Appellant.