Psychologist, Professor Urge High Court To Construe Identity Theft Law Narrowly

Mealey's (January 3, 2023, 8:53 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Four days after a psychologist filed his petitioner merits brief in the U.S. Supreme Court championing a narrow construction of the federal aggravated identity theft statute under which he was convicted, a law professor filed an amicus curiae brief supporting the petitioner, encouraging the high court to avoid the vagueness that he says the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals employed in its affirmance of the petitioner’s conviction....