United States Third Circuit

Conviction for attempting to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a child to engage in illegal sexual activity is affirmed where defendant violated 18 U.S.C. sec. 2422(b) despite not communicating directly with a child or with someone whom he believed was a child by using an adult intermediary.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/23/2009
• Published 07/23/2009

Judges

• Before:  SLOVITER, AMBRO and JORDAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Karen S. Gerlach, Office of Federal Public Defender, Pittsburgh, PA, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert L. Eberhardt, Office of the United States Attorney, Pittsburgh, PA, for Appellee.