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UPON REMITTITUR FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS, DEFENDANT’S IDENTITY THEFT CONVICTION AFFIRMED, DEFENDANT ATTEMPTED TO PURCHASE ITEMS USING A CREDIT CARD AND DRIVER’S LICENSE WITH A FICTITIOUS NAME (FIRST DEPT)

The First Department, upon remittitur from the Court of Appeals, determined defendant’s conviction for identity theft was not against the weight of the evidence. The defendant had tried to purchase items from a store using a credit card and driver’s license with a fictitious name. The First Department had reversed the conviction finding that, because the name was fictitious, defendant had not assumed the identity of another. The Court of Appeal held that using a fictitious name was prohibited by the identity theft statute:

On appeal, we modified to the extent of vacating the conviction for identity theft, and otherwise affirmed … . We reasoned that in order to establish the crime, a defendant had to both use the victim’s personal identifying information and assume the victim’s identity. We reasoned that while defendant had used the victim’s personal identifying information, he had not assumed her identity, but rather, that of a fictitious person.

The Court of Appeals reversed, reasoning that defendant had assumed the identity of the victim within the meaning of the statute. The Court rejected defendant’s argument that “the requirement that a defendant assumes the identity of another is not a separate element of the crime,” explaining that the statutory language “simply summarizes and introduces the three categories of conduct through which an identity may be assumed” … . People v Roberts, 2018 NY Slip Op 05220, First Dept 7-12-18

CRIMINAL LAW (UPON REMITTITUR FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS, DEFENDANT’S IDENTITY THEFT CONVICTION AFFIRMED, DEFENDANT ATTEMPTED TO PURCHASE ITEMS USING A CREDIT CARD AND DRIVER’S LICENSE WITH A FICTITIOUS NAME (FIRST DEPT))/EVIDENCE (CRIMINAL LAW, IDENTITY THEFT, UPON REMITTITUR FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS, DEFENDANT’S IDENTITY THEFT CONVICTION AFFIRMED, DEFENDANT ATTEMPTED TO PURCHASE ITEMS USING A CREDIT CARD AND DRIVER’S LICENSE WITH A FICTITIOUS NAME (FIRST DEPT))/APPEALS (CRIMINAL LAW, IDENTITY THEFT, UPON REMITTITUR FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS, DEFENDANT’S IDENTITY THEFT CONVICTION AFFIRMED, DEFENDANT ATTEMPTED TO PURCHASE ITEMS USING A CREDIT CARD AND DRIVER’S LICENSE WITH A FICTITIOUS NAME (FIRST DEPT))/IDENTITY THEFT  (CRIMINAL LAW, IDENTITY THEFT, UPON REMITTITUR FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS, DEFENDANT’S IDENTITY THEFT CONVICTION AFFIRMED, DEFENDANT ATTEMPTED TO PURCHASE ITEMS USING A CREDIT CARD AND DRIVER’S LICENSE WITH A FICTITIOUS NAME (FIRST DEPT))

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