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DOJ trying to identify "victims" of serious identity fraud sentencing snafu

By Douglas A. Berman

Perhaps readers with a literary bent can help me figure out whether this story reported by Marcia Coyle in the National Law Journal reads more like a tale from Dickens or Kafka or Orwell.  Here are the basics: The Department of Justice, working with federal courts and U.S. attorney offices, is trying to identify an unknown number of criminal defendants incorrectly convicted and sentenced under the felony provisions of a federal identification fraud statute instead of its misdemeanor provisions. At the end of last year, Kenneth Melson, director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, notified the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts that some defendants who have been convicted of possessing false, stolen, or unlawfully produced identification documents, in violation of 18 U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).