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Athens Banner Herald
\nJanuary 9, 2007 <\/p>\n
High court upholds ID theft conviction<\/strong><\/p>\n ATLANTA – The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the identity fraud conviction of an illegal immigrant from Mexico who used the name and Social Security number of a Danielsville man to get a job at a poultry plant.<\/p>\n In a unanimous decision released Monday, the justices said Georgia’s identity theft law is not unconstitutionally vague, nor is it pre-empted by federal law.<\/p>\n The high court found that Nohe Gomes Hernandez “misappropriated the Social Security number of Jason Smith,” a Danielsville resident, and that he “then used this misappropriated number to obtain a Social Security card and a California driver’s license in Smith’s name” so he could get a job at a Northeast Georgia poultry plant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read the rest from the Athens Banner Herald here.<\/a><\/p>\n