Jarod Cade Swindle v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the jury could reasonably have inferred that the defendant’s signing of a false name on a postal service delivery form “was capable of affecting the Postal Service’s general function of tracking packages and identifying the recipients of packages entrusted to it”
• holding under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 a defendant’s false name “is material if it has a natural tendency to influence, or is capable of influencing, either a discrete decision or any other function of the agency to which it was addressed”
• “We . . . hold[] a statement is material if it has a natural tendency to influence, or is capable of influencing, either a discrete decision or any other function of the agency to which it was addressed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).