United States v. Abel Mafanya

How courts have described this case

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• affirming enhancement where defendant appeared before the magistrate judge using a false identity even though his true identity was discovered before the detention hearing
• “Appellant’s false statement to a judicial officer (the magistrate judge) was an attempt to obstruct justice. Therefore, the district court properly Applied the [Section 3C1.1] enhancement . . . .”
• use of false identity in detention hearing was obstruction of justice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).