Thread: NE-Woman Arrested in Nebraska Immigration Raid Wins Appeal

Posted: 1:56 PM Mar 25, 2010

Woman Arrested in Nebraska Immigration Raid Wins Appeal

Omaha, Neb. A federal appeals panel has reversed the conviction of a woman arrested during a 2006 immigration raid at a Grand Island meatpacking plant.


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A federal appeals panel has reversed the conviction of a woman arrested during a 2006 immigration raid at a Grand Island meatpacking plant.

The panel took the action because it said she didn't know she was using someone else's identification.

A ruling issued Thursday by the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals sent Silvia Ochoa-Gonzalez's case back to the district court for further proceedings.

Ochoa-Gonzalez argued that a U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidated her guilty plea for aggravated identity theft. The high court's ruling said to be convicted of that crime, a defendant has to know that the identity stolen belongs to a real person. She admitted she only knew it was fake.

Ochoa-Gonzalez's attorney, John Vanderslice, didn't immediately return a message left Thursday seeking comment.


http://www.1011now.com/news/headlines/89131782.html

She admitted she only knew it was fake.

This is so laughable, I could cry! And those are the people we may give amnesty to.

And of course there's no chance that Homeland Insecurity will deport an Undocumented Democrat.

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