United States DC Circuit

In case involving pimp whose prostitutes included girls under the age of eighteen, conviction and sentence for sex trafficking of children and transportation of minors for prostitution are affirmed over claims that: 1) the district court should have excluded evidence of defendant's prior bad acts; and 2) defendant was not properly sentenced as a career offender.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/20/2007
• Decided 03/20/2007
• Published 03/20/2007

Judges

• Before:  SENTELLE, RANDOLPH and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas J. Saunders, appointed by the court, argued the cause and filed the brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth H. Danello, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellee.   With her on the brief were Jeffrey A. Taylor, U.S. Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III, Cynthia G. Wright, and Patricia Stewart, Assistant U.S. Attorneys.