United States Fifth Circuit

Where defendant intended to entice a minor to engage in sexual acts, the fact that he was corresponding with an adult FBI agent posing as a minor does not make the crime legally impossible, but only factually impossible.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/14/2001
• Published 05/14/2001

Judges

• KAZEN, Chief Judge:, Before POLITZ and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges, and KAZEN, Chief Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Kathlyn Giannaula Snyder (argued), James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., George McCall Secrest, Jr. (argued), Bennett & Secrest, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.