United States v. Ernest Adams

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• concluding that retrial was permissible because “the evidence would have been sufficient to convict [the defendant] as charged in the indictment”
• vacating because indictment listed “false name” but Government proved both “false name” and “false address,” and the court allowed,conviction on either basis
• finding constructive amendment where the government presented an uncharged factual basis for conviction at trial
• reversing Adams’s conviction after the jury found him guilty of using a driver’s license with a false name, but the Government relied on false statements concerning his residence
• reversing Adams’s conviction after the jury found him guilty of using a driver’s license with a false name, but the Government relied on false statements concerning his residence
• “In his charge to the jury, the trial judge did not restrict his instructions to the falsity of the name.”

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