This is maddening. They know what they are doing. I met a neighbor several years ago who introduced herself and then quickly gave me her “work name”, in case anyone from Jennie-O asked about her. Purchasing an identity requires knowledge of the situation.
I firmly believe that ALL identity thieves (not just those involving illegal USA residency) should be summarily executed.
I despise identity thieves above most any other class of criminal.
In 2000 the illegal alien used a fake name and Social Security number to get a job at an Illinois *steal* plant.
So ignorance of the law is a valid argument. If the rest of us break a law we don’t know about, we aren’t guilty.
But in the High Court’s opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer writes that the law requires prosecutors to show that the defendant knew the counterfeit identification belonged to another person.
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So change the law. I’m assuming this wasn’t a constitutional decision.
Oh, great! Now they have just given every one of them an excuse! What next?
So if I rob a bank it’s cool because I didn’t know that the money belonged to someone else.
Well if it didn’t belong to him then obviously ...
Well that sounds like a problem with the way the Statute is written. As a former Prosecutor, if you can’t prove all elements of a crime, then there is no crime. That is an easy call.
According to this ANY criminal illegal has the right
to squat and take over any of the SCOTUS chairs
and become ... an EXEMPT black-robed Judge.
Can anyone PROVE that the criminal illegal
did knew the full power that would arise
from taking one of the 9’s SS number, EXEMPTION,
chair, car, office, ... and private homes?
The prosecuter is at fault in this case. The proper charge would be fraud of misrepresenting themselves. They knew the papers were false, after all.
Everything for illegals, crumbs for citizens.
An interesting question that I have thought about is if another person steals my identity and he is living as me and if I hunt him down and kill him then I am killing myself; that is, committing suicide rather than murder.
Yeah, I know, wouldn’t work that way but it is an interesting mental game.
I hope family members of these dead heads are the next victims
Guess who needs their identification stolen and we will see a change?.
A liberal is someone who hasn’t been mugged.
So any illegal can just say, “I didn’t know”? And of course, we can count on them to be honest...after they slithered across our border like thieves in the night. What happened to “ignorance of the law is no excuse”? I guess that only applies to Americans.
Must be in Chicago...
Thinking logically, if one knows the identification data they are using is NOT THEIRS, then why is it not identity theft when it happens to be someone else’s (as opposed to fictitious)?
The law is an ass.