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In State v. Ali the Utah Appellate, court upheld two convictions against Ali; distributing or arranging to distribute a controlled substance,a first degree felony, and and one count of providing false information to a peace officer with the intent of leading the officer to believe that the person providing the information is another actual person, a class A misdemeanor.
A person commits a class A misdemeanor if,with the intent of leading a peace officer to believe that the person is another actual person, he gives the name, birth date, or address of another person to a peace officer acting in the lawful discharge of the peace officer’s official duties.
The class A misdemeanor and felony were upheld by the Utah Court of Appeals. Mr. Ali tried to argue in regards to the felony that the undercover officer could not have identified him according to his testimony. Mr. Ali argued as one part of his argument that because of the different races it was unlikely that he could actually be identified. There is some case law to support this position but the Appellate court upheld the conviction.
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