United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's aggravated identity theft conviction is affirmed where the scienter element of 18 U.S.C. section 1028A required that the government prove only that defendant knew that the victim was a real person, living or deceased, when he procured a passport using the victim's birth certificate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/25/2010
• Published 03/25/2010

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• United States Ninth Circuit

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