means-of-identification
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 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 … |
| 25-201 | 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… | |
| 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]… |
| 21-8129 | Radu Miclaus v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review application-note-2 circuit-split criminal-law identification-trafficking means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trafficking transferring | Did the Sixth Circuit err in holding that "trafficking" a means of identification does not also constitute "transferring" such identification under Se… |
| 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… |
| 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. |