Legal Opinion
United States v. Aracelis Paredes
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 2, 1996No. 94-3913PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Aracelis Paredes of several crimes arising out of her impersonation of an FBI agent. She appeals her convictions on the ground that the district court erred in admitting under Fed. R. Evid. 404(b) evidence of two prior crimes where she impersonated a police officer. She appeals her sentence on the ground that the district court erred in making an upward departure. We affirm.
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Paredes came up with an idea to make money by impersonating an FBI agent. She would locate a “lame” (defined by Paredes as “an older person who dresses kind of funny”) leaving a…
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