United States v. Christopher Spears

SYKES, Circuit Judge.

A federal jury convicted Christopher Spears of various crimes stemming from his cottage industry of making and selling various counterfeit documents, including fake Indiana driver’s licenses and handgun permits. He challenges three of his five convictions. First, he argues that the evidence was insufficient to convict him of aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(l) because he did not “transferí ] ... a means of identification of another person,” but merely transferred identifying information to its rightful owner, albeit in the form of a…