United States Sixth Circuit

Defendant's conviction for unlawfully obtaining citizenship is affirmed over his claim that the jury was improperly instructed to consider four different statutes with different elements under a one-count indictment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/01/2005
• Decided 06/08/2005
• Published 06/08/2005

Judges

• Before NORRIS and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges;  TODD, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  S. Michael Lear, Zukerman, Daiker & Lear, Cleveland, OH, for Appellant.  Arnold C. Celnicker, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  S. Michael Lear, Zukerman, Daiker & Lear, Cleveland, OH, for Appellant.  Arnold C. Celnicker, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, James V. Moroney, Asst. U.S. Attorney, Cleveland, OH, for Appellee.  Jeffrey M. Gamso, American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, Cleveland, OH, for Amicus Curiae.