United States v. Daniel Usher
United States v. Daniel Usher
Opinion
NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JAN 6 2020
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 18-50159
Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No.
CR 17-82-CJC v. DANIEL JERMAINE USHER, AKA Baby, MEMORANDUM* AKA Baby Toast Face, AKA Babytoast, AKA Toast Face, AKA Toast-Face, AKA Toastface, AKA Daniel Jamaine Usher, AKA Daniel Jermain Usher, AKA Daniel Jermane Usher, AKA Daniel Jermiane Usher,
Defendant-Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Central District of California
Cormac J. Carney, District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted December 13, 2019
Pasadena, California Before: N.R. SMITH and WATFORD, Circuit Judges, and KORMAN,** District
Judge.
*
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
**
The Honorable Edward R. Korman, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, sitting by designation.
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Daniel Usher appeals his conviction and sentence for three counts of aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a). We vacate three unconstitutional conditions of supervised release and remand to correct the same, and otherwise affirm.
1. Usher contends that the evidence presented at trial was legally insufficient to establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he used Bank of America (“BOA”) customers’ personal identification numbers, known as “PINs,” to access their accounts on BOA ATMs and withdraw cash. We disagree. “Evidence is sufficient to support a conviction unless, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to sustaining the verdict, no rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.” United States v. Overton, 573 F.3d 679, 685 (9th Cir. 2009). At trial, BOA representatives testified that BOA’s ATMs required customers’ PINs to be entered before each cash withdrawal. Bank records showed the exact time of each cash withdrawal from the customers’ accounts, and time-stamped surveillance footage showed precisely when Usher and the customers stood at the ATMs. Together, this evidence sufficiently supported the conclusion, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Usher must have used the customers’ PINs to withdraw cash from their accounts.
2. Usher also argues that, even if the evidence proved that he used the
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4. Finally, following United States v. Ped, 943 F.3d 427, 432–34 (9th Cir. 2019), we vacate conditions five, six, and fourteen of Usher’s supervised release, which are unconstitutional under United States v. Evans, 883 F.3d 1154, 1162–64 (9th Cir. 2018), and remand to the district court with instructions to impose any
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AFFIRMED in part, VACATED in part, and REMANDED for the limited purpose of modifying the conditions of supervised release.
Reference
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