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Trial of man in fraudulent driver’s license case starts
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Posted on Aug 21 2011
The jury trial of a man accused of fraudulently obtaining a CNMI driver’s license will start today, Monday, in federal court.
The jury selection is expected to begin at 9am in the case against Wei Lin, a Chinese national being charged with two counts of document fraud and a count of false statements to a federal agent.
Visiting judge Mark W. Bennett will be presiding over the jury trial. Assistant U.S. attorney Kirk Schuler is prosecuting the case. Attorneys Michael Evangelista and Joseph Camacho are representing Lin.
The case involves Lin who was stopped by a traffic officer and the case was later forwarded to Department of Homeland Security.
Evangelista told Saipan Tribune that every person who is arrested is entitled to his day in court and that it is the jury that decides the case.
According to the indictment, Li allegedly paid a third-party to obtain the driver’s license without meeting the requirements.
Lin also allegedly presented the Bureau of Motor Vehicles with an affidavit falsely stating that he had lost his previous driver’s license, when he knew that it had been seized by a police officer.
