The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found Thursday that the New York high court’s narrowing of state criminal impersonation and fraud statutes required the dismissal of some convictions in Golb v. Attorney General of the State of New York, 16-0452.

But that wasn’t enough to get a Dead Sea scrolls scholar entirely off the hook for impersonating other scholars in an attempt to embarrass or do their reputations harm for disagreeing with his father’s interpretation of the ancient texts.

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