STATE v. ALLEN

No. 32,774.

336 P.3d 1007 (2014)

2014-NMCA-111

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Christopher ALLEN, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Certiorari Denied, October 8, 2014, No. 34,887.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary K. King , Attorney General, Santa Fe, NM, M. Anne Kelly , Assistant Attorney General, Albuquerque, NM, for Appellee.

Law Office of the Public Defender, Jorge A. Alvarado , Chief Public Defender, B. Douglas Wood III , Assistant Appellate Defender, Santa Fe, NM, for Appellant.


OPINION

VIGIL, Judge.

{1} This is an identity theft case. The question presented is whether Defendant can be prosecuted in New Mexico when he never set foot in New Mexico, and all the acts of using Victim's identity occurred in other states. Concluding that New Mexico has jurisdiction to prosecute Defendant, we affirm.

BACKGROUND

{2} Victim attempted to obtain a New Mexico driver's license and discovered that someone...

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