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United States v. Barrington
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
648 F.3d 1178 (2011)
- Written by Alex Ruskell, JD
Facts
Marcus Barrington (defendant) was convicted under the federal identity-theft statute for being part of a conspiracy that changed student grades at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. To change grades, Barrington and his coconspirators secretly installed keyloggers on university computers to obtain the usernames and passwords of registrar employees. Barrington appealed his conviction to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, arguing that he could not be convicted of federal identity theft, because usernames and passwords were not the means of identification of another person.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Whittemore, J.)
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