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173683P.pdf 12/03/2018 United States v. Lony Gatwas
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 17-3683
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Benton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. The district court did not err in
interpreting the term "uses, without lawful authority" in finding
defendant guilty on seven counts of aggravated identity theft under 18
U.S.C. Sec. 1028A(a)(1); when defendant used the names and social security
number of actual children, including his own, during and in relation to
his wire fraud, whether the minor consented to the use was irrelevant; the
court did not err in rejecting an instruction incorporating defendant's
rejected interpretation of the statute.