United States v. Johnson

I write separately to emphasize that the usual process of making a fraudulent credit card purchase, and the telephonic or self-service variants now commonplace in the marketplace, may complicate the legal analysis used to determine whether a writing has been “falsely made” or “uttered” in violation of Article 123, UCMJ.

Part of this case involves four fraudulent credit card transactions. In each of these incidents, the appellant presented the credit card to a clerk, the clerk “swiped” the card through a card reader connected to a centralized billing computer, the event was given a *611transaction…