U.S. v. PICQUET

No. 91-3839.

963 F.2d 54 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Veronica PICQUET, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 29, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virginia Laughlin Schlueter, Asst. Federal Public Defender and John T. Mulvehill, Federal Public Defender, New Orleans, La. (court appointed), for defendant-appellant.

Peter G. Strasser, Mary Jude Darrow, Asst U.S. Attys., and Harry Rosenberg, U.S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for the U.S.

Before KING and WIENER, Circuit Judges, and LAKE, District Judge.


SIM LAKE, District Judge:

18 U.S.C. § 1029(a)(2) makes it a crime to obtain "anything of value aggregating $1,000 or more" during a one-year period by use of an unauthorized access device. The issue in this appeal is whether sales taxes are includable in the $1,000 aggregate value. The indictment against defendant-appellant, Veronica Picquet, alleged that Hibernia National Bank mailed VISA credit cards to its customers. After some of the credit cards were returned...

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