United States v. Mensah, No. 12-1066 (1st Cir. 2013)
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Defendant entered the United States from Ghana and received permanent legal resident status pursuant to a diversity visa. Five years later, Defendant applied for a diversity visa under the false name Willberforce Appiah. A few months later, Defendant applied for citizenship under his own name. The Government issued a diversity visa to Appiah. In the midst of his activities to create a second identity as Appiah, Defendant became a citizen. Defendant was later charged with and convicted of unlawful procurement of naturalization. The First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, holding (1) as to Defendant's most substantial claim of error, the district court did not clearly err in allowing the prosecutor's peremptory challenges to two Asian-American potential jurors; and (2) the remainder of Defendant's allegations of error, including claims of constitutional violations to the allegedly improper admission of propensity evidence, were unavailing.
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