United States Seventh Circuit

In an appeal from a conviction for attempting to transport a minor across state lines to engage in illegal sexual conduct, attorney's motion to withdraw upon filing an Anders brief is granted and appeal dismissed where the fact that the person defendant was trying to entice was in fact neither underage nor a law enforcement officer was not a defense to a charge of attempted illegal sexual contact with a minor.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/05/2008
• Published 12/05/2008

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, ROVNER, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James T. Morris, Oklahoma City, OK, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michelle L. Jacobs, Attorney (submitted), Office of the United States Attorney, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Anthony D. Cotton, Kuchler & Cotton, Waukesha, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.