United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's conviction and sentence for using a facility of interstate commerce to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity are affirmed where: 1) 18 U.S.C. section 2422(b) did not exceed Congress' commerce clause power; 2) even if none of defendant's communications were routed over state lines, the internet and telephone he used to contact the undercover officer were still instrumentalities of interstate commerce; 3) defendant's challenges to his sentence were foreclosed by circuit precedent.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/23/2009
• Published 09/23/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before MARCUS, WILSON and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Chet Kaufman and Randolph P. Murrell, Fed. Pub. Defenders, Tallahassee, FL, for Faris., Terry Flynn, E. Bryan Wilson, U.S. Atty., Tallahassee, FL, for U.S.