Under the offense of Fraudulent Securing of Document Execution, which actions constitute the offense?

• A. Causes a public servant to file or record any purported judgment or other document memorializing an act, order, directive, or process
• B. Causes another person to sign or execute any document affecting property or the pecuniary interest of any person
• C. None of the above
• D. Both signing a document and causing a public servant to file a purported judgment or other document memorializing an act, order, directive, or process

Answer: (D)

Fraudulent securing of document execution covers deceit used to obtain a document’s execution or to have it filed in official records. The offense isn’t limited to one way of getting a document into effect; it includes both convincing someone to sign or execute a document and causing a public servant to file a fraudulent judgment or other official document memorializing an act, order, directive, or process. Both actions achieve the same wrongful goal: obtaining the document’s legal effect through deception, especially when it affects property or a person’s pecuniary interests. That’s why choosing both actions together is the best answer.

In contrast, choosing none of the above would ignore the deceptive acts that the statute criminalizes, and selecting only one of the actions would omit the other form of fraudulent securing that the offense covers.