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151546P.pdf 06/27/2016 United States v. Yoirlan Rojas
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-1546
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Murphy and Beam, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Assuming for the sake of argument that the
district court erred by permitting a law enforcement officer to testify
that use of a credit card without the owner's permission was identity
theft, the error was did not affect defendant's substantial rights and was
not plain error; the district court did not err in permitting the
government to impeach defendant's testimony by admitting credit cards
found in his wallet and by permitting rebuttal evidence from the agent in
the case regarding the cards, as the court specifically instructed the
jury it could only consider this evidence for the limited purpose of
impeaching defendant's testimony that he did not understand credit cards
and that he lacked criminal intent.