identity-theft
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-796 | Princewill Arinze Duru v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Denied | Response Waived | bank-fraud criminal-statute identity-theft means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines victim-definition | Title 18, United State Code, Section 1028A imposes a mandatory two-year consecutive sentence on anyone who "knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, w… |
| 25A636 | Princewell Arinze Duru v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | criminal-enhancement fraud-conspiracy identity-theft lawful-authority statutory-interpretation victim-definition | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6266 | George Ugochukwu Egwumba v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent criminal-law identity-theft means-of-identification possession-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the government must prove a defendant possessed a means of identification without the consent of its owner – that is, stole the identity – to … |
| 25-6157 | Eric King v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment identity-theft indictment-defects | I. DUBIN MISAPPLICATION Whether Petitioner's conviction for aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A can stand where, contrary to Dubin v. Un… |
| 25-6100 | Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-rights identity-theft judicial-misconduct plea-withdrawal statute-of-limitations video-testimony | (1) Whether Petitioner was induced to take a plea agreement when Judge T. Michael Scolnghts stated "The Court... we go through all this, tell these ot… |
| 25-201 | Mahsa Parviz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | consent-requirement criminal-statute identity-theft mandatory-sentencing means-of-identification statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), titled "Aggravated identity theft," imposes a mandatory consecutive two-year prison term on one who, while committing a liste… | |
| 25-160 | Julian Omidi and Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | Relisted (2) | appellate-review consent-element criminal-statute identity-theft jury-instruction mens-rea | 1. Whether the government must prove that the defendant used a means of identification without the consent of its owner, that is, stole the identity, … |
| 24-5557 | Michael Avenatti v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-liability criminal-statute identity-theft statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | In Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110, 114 (2023), the Court narrowed the scope of the aggravated identity theft statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), a… |
| 24-143 | Lena Lasher v. Peter Riccio, et al. | New Jersey | 2024-08-09 | Denied | anti-asian-racism appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process hate-crime identity-theft | 1. Is Identity Theft an exceptional circumstance to reinstate a complaint? 2. Did the Appellate Division err in finding no error by the Middlesex Cou… | |
| 24-5030 | Lani Lucas Limane, aka Lukasz Chad Limane v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error identity-theft indictment indictment-variance plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense rule-11 | Was it plain error for a District Court to convict Petitioner on his plea of guilty to a crime never charged in the governing Indictment? When the su… |
| 23-6895 | Bradley Lane Croft v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law fraud identity-theft qualifications statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dubin | Whether aggravated identity theft convictions must be reversed when the real "crux" of the fraud turns, not on any person's name, but on their qualifi… |
| 23-5848 | In Re Naser A. Abdallah | 2023-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit identity-theft standing writ-of-prohibition | WHETHER BY REASON OF AN ABUSE OF DISCRETION COMMITTED BY THE DISTRICT COURT, IN REFUSING TO GRANT RELIEF PURSUANT TO PHASER ABDALLAH'S AGGRAVATED IDEN… | |
| 22-7175 | Marvin Eduardo Luna Gomez v. Internal Revenue Service | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-claim data-breach due-process federal-statute identity-theft iRS-liability standing tax-refund | WHETHER COURT WAS ARGU JURISDICTION AND WHETHER COMPLAINT STATES A CLAIM ARE QUESTIONS OF LAW REVIEWED DE NOVO. |
| 22-6172 | Terry L. Benson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process frcp identity-theft jury-of-peers personal-jurisdiction rule-60b writ-of-mandamus | 1. Appeal from originating case from the case No. 2:19-cr-20065-lmsn Appealed to the case No. 21-6064 Affirming Aggrivated Identity theft ason record … |
| 22-5460 | Bradley Lane Croft v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-question identity-theft money-laundering sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | Whether an accused commits the crime of aggravated identity theft by merely uttering, mentioning, or reciting someone else's name when committing frau… |
| 22-5305 | Aileen Kogera Njoroge v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fraud identity-theft legal-appeal probation restitution sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-discretion | The Defendant, Aileen Kogera Njoroge, hereinafter "Kogera " appeals her conviction following a jury trial held on October 13th through October 16, 202… |
| 22-10 | David Fox Dubin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (4) | circuit-split criminal-law due-process identity-theft lawful-authority means-of-identification mens-rea predicate-offense statutory-interpretation | The federal aggravated identity theft statute provides: "Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated [elsewhere in the statute]… |
| 21-7377 | Rosee Torres, et vir v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction identity-theft judicial-recusal mortgage-fraud rico-act standing takings | (a) WHETHER Torres are entitled to protections of Amendments 5th, 6th, 7th-13th and 14th to the Constitution? (b) WHETHER dismissal with prejudice of… |
| 21-7301 | Bogdan Nicolescu v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-devices congressional-intent criminal-enhancement criminal-sentencing guideline-commentary identity-theft sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access-device wireless-telephone-protection-act | 1. Whether Application Note 2 of the Commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2B1.6 bars the application of the U.S.S.G. § 2Bl.l(b)(ll)(B)(i) 2-level enhancement for … |
| 21-6461 | Andreea Dumitru, aka Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1028a aggravated-identity-theft asylum asylum-application circuit-split criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft lawful-authority lenity statutory-interpretation statutory-purpose | The aggravated identity theft statute imposes a mandatory consecutive sentence of minimum two years for "[w]hoever, during and in relation to any felo… |
| 20-8468 | Deborah Petty v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure criminal-venue district-court due-process identity-theft interstate-crime jurisdiction venue | I. Was venue proper in the Northern District of Texas when the crimes were actually committed in Nevada and Florida? |
| 20-7359 | Karen Gagarin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split consent criminal-law criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft means-of-identification statutory-interpretation supreme-court | The aggravated identity theft statute imposes a mandatory consecutive sentence of minimum two years for "[w]hoever, during and in relation to any felo… |
| 20-5944 | In Re Gerald M. Calmese | 2020-10-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus identity-theft jurisdiction sixth-amendment | 1. Was the Eidere tresrs toblishThe "Anoter Person. in RDiRn Ent of Pantiff which The LAS COnUCED of Lakno thie I 2 2. Ds the cot betore which the Pe… | |
| 20-5635 | Daniel Thomason Smith v. Warden, FCI Beaumont | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | allocution brady-violation conflict-of-interest due-process exculpatory-evidence false-witness identity-theft judicial-misconduct medicare-fraud mens-rea savings-clause | 1. Is it appropriate to convict me, Daniel Thomason Smith, when I was NEVER allowed to testify for what I had knowledge of and/or did not have knowl… |
| 20-5057 | Ledinson Chavez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advance-knowledge aggravated-identity-theft aiding-and-abetting criminal-law identity-theft jury-instruction knowledge-requirement rosemond-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-mandate | Did the trial court's jury instruction on aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft comply with this Court's mandate in Rosemond v. United States,… |
| 19-8364 | Adam C. Vance v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-device-fraud aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure identity-theft internet-transactions interstate-commerce reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-alexander united-states-v-vance | Was Vance Entitled To Acquittal for Online Internet -based Aggravated Identity Theft where it was not shown this Internet transaction in Count 3 was d… |
| 19-7897 | Brent Evan Webster v. CorVel Enterprise Company, Inc., et al. | Oregon | 2020-03-06 | Denied | IFP | arrest-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-law due-process fraud human-trafficking identity-theft legal-abuse legal-coercion remedy standing | Can this man Reverse- Fraudulently Incurred Jail-Bond-Contracts, with Public and Private Corporate Entities, by Implementing his own Legally Binding T… |
| 19-7757 | Babatunde Popoola v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-fraud consent criminal-law criminal-procedure financial-crimes identity-theft money-laundering predicate-crime statutory-interpretation | WHETHER A PERSON WHO WITH THE CONSENT OF A BANK ACCOUNT HOLDER PROVIDES IDENTIFYING INFORMATION TO A THIRD PARTY TO DEPOSIT FUNDS INTO THE ACCOUNT W… |
| 19-5975 | Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud , in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 . Count One of the Indictment. … |
| 19-5757 | Fulvio Flete-Garcia v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft conspiracy conversion-of-government-property evidentiary-hearing government-as-victim government-property identity-theft loss-calculation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement tax-fraud tax-fraud-conspiracy victim-enhancement | 1. Whether, in determining the sentence for a tax-fraud conspiracy where the defendant is charged with conversion of government property and aggravate… |
| 18-8986 | David E. Kelly v. Joseph M. Arpaio, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment business-identity-theft civil-rights constitutional-rights copyright-infringement due-process equal-treatment identity-theft law-enforcement property-rights | Under the 14th Amendment: Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America, are law enforcement officers allowed to violate the rights of… |
| 18-7720 | Howard Webber v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split consent consent-defense criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute identity-theft mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Can a defendant commit aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A by using another person's identifying information with that person'… |
| 18-7262 | Artak Ovsepian and Kenneth Wayne Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-u.s.c.-1028a 18-usc-1028a apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-fines criminal-restitution double-counting identity-theft sentencing-guidelines u-s-code u.s.s.g.-2b1.6 | In Southern Union Co. v. United States, 567 U.S. 343, 360 (2012), the Court held "that the rule of Apprendi applies to the imposition of criminal fine… |
| 18-682 | Manuel Enrique Santana v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | aggravated-identity-theft appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federalism identity-theft means-of-identification name statutory-interpretation | Whether the use of a name, without more, constitutes the use of a "means of identification of another person" under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A. | |
| 18-6198 | Carlos Rafael Acosta-Joaquin v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-408(a)(7)(B) criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process false-representation federal-criminal-law identity-theft social-security-fraud social-security-number statutory-interpretation | Is a defendant guilty of social security fraud pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 408(a)(7)(B) – which prohibits "falsely represent[ing] a number to be the socia… |