United States Second Circuit

Defendant's conviction for conspiring to transport women in interstate and foreign commerce for the purpose of prostitution is reversed where the district court erred in failing to instruct the jury that defendant had to know that the women were transported in interstate commerce to be guilty of the offense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/01/2009
• Published 10/01/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  B.D. PARKER, WESLEY, Circuit Judges, MURTHA, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Susan C. Wolfe, Hoffman & Pollok, LLP, New York, N.Y. (for Defendant-Appellant Shim)., Douglas T. Burns, Westbury, N.Y. (for Defendant-Appellant Kim)., Elie Honig, Assistant United States Attorney (Andrew L. Fish, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief) for Lev L. Dassin, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y. (for Appellee).