Tamatha Hilton was the bookkeeper for a company called Woodsmith’s. Woodsmith’s made furniture. Ms. Hilton made bad decisions.
Specifically, for a few years, she took checks written by Woodsmith’s customers and gave them to her husband, Jimmy Hilton. Mr. Hilton did not work at Woodsmith’s.
Mr. Hilton gave the checks to his ex-wife, Jacqueline Hilton. Ms. Hilton opened a bank account at Suntrust in her name, saying that she was the owner of a company called Woodsmiths Furniture Company.
This week’s wins cover three circuits and four diverse areas of law.
Particularly interesting (to me) are the Fourth Circuit’s opinion holding that it may not be a crime to steal the identity of a corporation. It feels like corporate personhood and its limits are popping up in all sorts of ways these days.
The Eighth Circuit has an interesting jury instruction issue in a sexual assault case, and, remarkably, the First Circuit has a remand based on the sufficiency of the evidence in a marijuana conspiracy case. A good set of wins all around.
The Federal Criminal Appeals Blog