Stealing ID isn't a crime?

PRJ · 06-03-2009, 10:20 AM

WTF?

"The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that an illegal immigrant who used stolen documents to work is not guilty of identity theft because he didn’t know the information belonged to another person"

Supreme Court Overturns Illegal Immigrant?s ID Theft Conviction | Judicial Watch

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/08pdf/08-108.pdf

Hawkeye16 · 06-03-2009, 10:27 AM

Bad news for him :|

ID Theft is a lesser crime than forging government documents. He will probably get a worse judgement because of that ruling IMO.

**ArmyAviation** · 06-03-2009, 10:32 AM

sorry, this country is going in a downward spiral

**Kronos1965** · 06-03-2009, 10:39 AM

I'm speechless.

This opens the door for a whole host of other kinds of problems.

Can you imagine this scenario?

In my country, it was okay to rob someone if you needed money so I thought it was okay to do it here...

An unfortunate example of our justice system working poorly.

Papa_D · 06-03-2009, 10:43 AM

Don't sweat it, Sodomyor will sort it all out and when she is done with those guys, they will get what they have coming which is a higher education and a job in the federal government, lol.

Darkblueta · 06-03-2009, 11:18 AM

Guys...RTFLW. Read the funny little words....

See the below:

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
FLORES-FIGUEROA v. UNITED STATES

certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the eighth circuit

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No. 08–108. Argued February 25, 2009—Decided May 4, 2009

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A federal statute forbidding “[a]ggravated identity theft” imposes a mandatory consecutive 2-year prison term on an individual convicted of certain predicate crimes if, during (or in relation to) the commission of those other crimes, the offender “knowingly … uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person.” 18 U. S. C. §1028A(a)(1) (emphasis added). After petitioner Flores-Figueroa, a Mexican citizen, gave his employer counterfeit Social Security and alien registration cards containing his name but other people’s identification numbers, he was arrested and charged with two immigration offenses and aggravated identity theft. Flores moved for acquittal on the latter charge, claiming that the Government could not prove that he knew that the documents’ numbers were assigned to other people. The District Court agreed with the Government that the word “knowingly” in §1028A(a)(1) does not modify the statute’s last three words, “of another person,” and, after trial, found Flores guilty on all counts. The Eighth Circuit affirmed.

FLORES-FIGUEROA v. UNITED STATES