Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Clifford D. BERCOVICH and Howard Webber, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-08-31
Citations: 615 F. App'x 416
Docket Number: No. 14-10319
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Clifford D. BERCOVICH and Howard Webber, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: McKEOWN, CLIFTON, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 615
Pages: 416–416

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Clifford D. BERCOVICH and Howard Webber, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 14-10319.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Aug. 25, 2015.
Filed Aug. 31, 2015.
Anne M. Voigts, Assistant U.S., Office of the U.S. Attorney, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Edward W. Swanson, Swanson & McNamara, LLP, Elizabeth Meyer Falk, Assistant Federal Public Defender, FPDCA-Federal Public Defender’s Office, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before: McKEOWN, CLIFTON, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
The government appeals from the district court's order dismissing the aggravated identity counts against Clifford D. Ber-covich and Howard Webber ("appellees"). We have jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. § 3731 and 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we reverse and remand.
The district court dismissed the aggravated identity theft counts brought under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A, because the indictment failed to allege that appellees transferred, possessed, or used another person's means of identification without that person's consent. We later held in United States v. Osuna-Alvarez, 788 F.3d 1183 (9th Cir.2015) (per curiam), that "regardless of whether the means of identification was stolen or obtained with the knowledge and consent of its owner, the illegal use of the means of identification alone violates § 1028A." Id. at 1185-86. In light of our intervening decision in Osuna-Alvarez, we reverse the district court's order dismissing the section 1028A counts, and remand for further proceedings.
REVERSED and REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.