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Criminal Law Keyed to Osler
Maslenjak v. United States
Citation:
137 S.Ct. 1918 (2017)Facts
In 1998 the defendant and her family met with an American immigration official to seek refugee status in America. Under an asylum interview that was conduct under oath, the defendant explained that in the civil war in Bosnia, their home country, they were in the middle of both sides of the rift. First, because they were Muslim and for being Serb because her husband evaded service in the Bosnia-Serb Army. The family was granted refugee status in the United States.
Later in 2006, the defendant applied for naturalization. In her application she affirmed that she never lied or mislead an immigration officer. She swore that all her answers were true, and was naturalized in 2007.
However, in 2006 immigration officers got records showing that he did not avoid service in the Bosnian Serb Army, but rather served as an officer and participated in the Srebrenica massacre. As a result, the government charged the defendant with knowingly procuring her naturalization illegally. Because she violated 18 USC 1425(a), her naturalization is revoked under 8 USC 1451(e).
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