United States Ninth Circuit

A conviction and sentence for traveling across state lines with intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor and use of an interstate facility to attempt to persuade a minor to engage in sex is reversed in part pursuant to a claim of erroneous admission of evidence of certain stories about adults having sex with children.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/03/2006
• Decided 04/04/2006
• Published 04/04/2006

Judges

• Before:  MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, and J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, HARRY PREGERSON, ALEX KOZINSKI, STEPHEN S. TROTT, PAMELA ANN RYMER, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, BARRY G. SILVERMAN, SUSAN P. GRABER, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, MARSHA S. BERZON, JAY S. BYBEE, CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Cal J. Potter, III, Potter Law Offices, Las Vegas, NV, for the defendant-appellant., Nancy J. Koppe, Assistant United States Attorney, and Robert L. Ellman, Appellate Chief, United States Attorneys' Office, Las Vegas, NV, for the plaintiff-appellee.