What Constitutes Criminal Impersonation
Full Question:
My 19 year old son was charged with criminal impersonation. He was arrested outside a bar/restaurant with his older brother's driver's license in his pocket; is that criminal impersonation?
12/08/2007 |
Category: Criminal |
State: Connecticut |
#13564
Answer:
The following is a CT statute:
Sec. 53a-130. Criminal impersonation: Class B misdemeanor.
(a) A person is guilty of criminal impersonation when he: (1)
Impersonates another and does an act in such assumed character with
intent to obtain a benefit or to injure or defraud another; or (2)
pretends to be a representative of some person or organization and does an
act in such pretended capacity with intent to obtain a benefit or to
injure or defraud another; or (3) pretends to be a public servant other
than a sworn member of an organized local police department or the
Division of State Police within the Department of Public Safety, or wears
or displays without authority any uniform, badge or shield by which such
public servant is lawfully distinguished, with intent to induce another to
submit to such pretended official authority or otherwise to act in
reliance upon that pretense.
(b) Criminal impersonation is a class B misdemeanor.
(1969, P.A. 828, S. 1
