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U.S. v. LATCHIN

Nos. 07-4009, 08-1085.

554 F.3d 709 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sami Koshaba LATCHIN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 4, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew S. Boutros (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Mary Higgins Judge, Terence F. MacCarthy, William H. Theis (argued), Office of the Federal Defender Program, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before BAUER, RIPPLE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

A jury found Sami Latchin, an Iraqi native who moved to the United States in the early 1990s, guilty of procuring citizenship illegally by making false statements in a naturalization application and of acting as an "unregistered agent" (a spy) for the Iraqi government. The case against Latchin was built on a treasure trove of Iraqi government materials seized by the FBI in Baghdad in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein. After his convictions...

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