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083047P.pdf 08/10/2009 United States v. Todd Myers
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 08-3047
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with John R. Gibson and Murphy,
Circuit Judges]
Criminal Case - criminal law. District court did not err in concluding
Myers was not entrapped as a matter of law, as a reasonable jury could
have concluded that, even if induced, Myers was predisposed to violate
the law. Sufficient evidence was presented to support conviction for
enticing a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity, as a reasonable
jury could have found he knew he was in a romance chat room and
believed he was communicating with a fourteen-year-old girl, and thus
intended to entice a minor to engage in illegal sex. District court did not
plainly err in admitting transcript of internet chats.