United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's conviction and sentence for travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a juvenile and coercion and enticement are affirmed where: 1) the probative value of the introduction at trial of erotic stories on defendant's PDA outweighed any unfair prejudice; and 2) defendant's sentence, with a lifetime of supervised release, was not designed to punish him for exercising a protected statutory or constitutional right.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/04/2009
• Published 12/04/2009

Judges

• TROTT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, STEPHEN S. TROTT, and PAMELA ANN RYMER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jason F. Carr, Federal Public Defender's Office, Las Vegas, NV, for the defendant-appellant., Adam M. Flake, United States Attorney's Office, Las Vegas, NV, for the plaintiff-appellee.