Cross-Cultural Law: The Case Of The Gypsy Offender Summary

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• The article “Cross-Cultural Law: The Case of the Gypsy Offender” by Anne Sutherland is about a Gypsy was using his nephews social security number to get a car from a dealership. He was questioned and told the dealership it wasn’t his and took the car back to the dealership, and they arrested him on a felony for with intent to deceive by using a false representation to obtain the car. Anne Sutherland was brought in on the case to stand on trial to explain that he wasn’t trying to deceive them that were just his culture because his culture likes to remain anonymous since names are corporate thing. In the end he was given six months for using someone else’s social security number that wasn’t his own. I think the point the author is trying to

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