It depends upon “context”! Really?
Many years ago I was assigned to represent an indigent defendant in the Southern District of New York. My client was a hardscrabble 25-year-old woman who looked even younger than her years. She had been abused and was down-on-her-luck. She needed a lawyer because she’d been indicted for a felony: cashing a $100 Social Security check at a local bar. She had given no thought to the absurdity of trying to pass herself off as the check’s payee: a senior citizen. The U.S. attorney, though, didn’t want her. That office was after a bigger fish, a postal worker we’ll call Mr. X. He was the young woman’s on-again off-again boyfriend who gave checks he stole to trusted friends, so they could cash them and share the profits.
