093536P.pdf   07/19/2010  United States  v.  James Young
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-3536
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Wollman and Murphy,
   Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. Evidence was sufficient
   to support defendant's conviction for attempting to entice a minor to
   engage in illicit sexual activity as the government proved defendant took
   several substantial steps to committing the crime; district court did not err
   in rejecting defendant's proposed abandonment instruction as an attempt
   cannot be abandoned once it is completed and defendant, who had
   completed a substantial step toward the crime was not entitled to the
   defense of abandonment; the evidence did not support the giving of
   defendant's proposed entrapment instruction, and the court did not err in
   rejecting the instruction; district court did not err in imposing an
   enhancement for misrepresentation of identity where defendant
   misrepresented his profession and marital status in an attempt to build
   trust and confidence with the victim; no error in imposing an
   enhancement for obstruction of justice based on the court's finding
   defendant perjured himself at trial.