00-2605 State v. Ramirez

By: dmc-admin//June 18, 2001//

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“This history reveals that Wis. Stat. sec. 943.201(2) was targeted at much more than the isolated act of misappropriating the personal identifying information of another or the initial receipt by the defendant of a thing of value as a result of the misappropriation. Rather, the legislation addressed a problem of much larger proportion with far greater consequences. Given this scope, history, context, and legislative objective of the statute, we conclude that the legislature envisioned that the theft of a person’s identity would, in many instances, produce recurring episodes in which the defendant would obtain things of value as a result of the original act of identity theft. Hence, the statutory language, ‘to obtain credit, money, goods, services or anything else of value.’ We therefore conclude that the statute creates a continuing offense.”

Judgment affirmed.

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