United States Second Circuit

In a case involving the prosecution of a large-scale sex-trafficking enterprise in the New York City area, sentences for guilty pleas to conspiring to use facilities in interstate commerce for the promotion, management, and facilitation of a prostitution trafficking enterprise, in violation of 18 U.S.C. section 371, are affirmed over: 1) defendants' challenges to the procedural and substantive reasonableness of their sentences and, based on the fact that there is only an incomplete transcript of his plea proceedings; and 2) defendant's challenge to the validity of his guilty plea entered pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/08/03

Judges

• PER CURIAM

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel