United States v. Bohdan Koziy, A/K/A Bogdanus Kosij, A/K/A Bohdan Jozij

How courts have described this case

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• holding that denaturalization “deprived [the alien] of a privilege that was never rightfully his”
• noting that the appellant’s contention that Ukranian police documents were forgeries “fails to go their admissibility, but rather to the weight of the evidence”
• explaining that had the defendant “disclosed his connection with the police force in his visa application, his application would have been rejected outright, or at the least, an investigation would have commenced which might have led to a denial of citizenship”
• applying illegal procurement standard in denaturalization proceeding where citizenship was- acquired in 1956
• upholding admissibility of Ukrainian police forms under ancient document exception to hearsay rule
• “The utilization of illegal procurement deprived Koziy of a privilege that was never rightfully his.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).