ELLINGTON, A.C.J.
Steven Leyda used a stolen credit card four times at the Bon Marche. We hold that separate charges of identity theft for each use of the card did not violate double jeopardy, because the unit of prosecution for identity theft is each use of stolen personal information, not each piece of stolen information. We also reject Leyda's contentions about the adequacy of the charging documents and jury instructions, and hold the merger doctrine did...
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