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: Appellate Law and PracticeCA1: Marriage fraud conviction affirmed
By S. COTUS
US v. Karim, No. 07-1210 (unpublished) affirms a conviction for conspiracy to commit marriage fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 over a sufficiency challenge. The facts are strange, but it seems like the defendant got an ex-girlfriend to marry him via proxy in Texas, with his sister standing in for him. The First explains that there is a "well-established legal principle that a conspiracy may be based on a tacit agreement shown from an implicit working relationship.? Likewise, the government did a good enough job showing that the parties didn?t really want to establish a life together.
Full post as published by Appellate Law and Practice on June 11, 2008 (boomark / email).
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