United States Eleventh Circuit

A defendant who arranges to have sex with a minor through communications with an adult intermediary, by means of interstate commerce, violates 18 U.S.C. section 2422(b). Enhancement under U.S.S.G. section 2G1.1(b)(2)(B) is justified where the victim is fictitious.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/04/2004
• Published 05/04/2004

Judges

• WILSON, Circuit Judge:, Before WILSON and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG , Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gerald S. Rutberg, Maitland, FL, for Defendant-Appellant., Matthew Axelrod, Anne R. Schultz, Asst. U.S. Atty., Madeleine R. Shirley, Suzan H. Ponzoli, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.