212559P.pdf   07/08/2022  United States  v.  James Joiner
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-2559
   U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Colloton, 
   Circuit Judge] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The evidence was sufficient 
   to support defendant's conviction for attempted inducement of a minor for 
   sexual activity; the district court did not err in refusing to give 
   defendant's proposed jury instruction on entrapment; nor did the court err 
   in refusing to instruct the jury on the term "coerce" as it appears in 18 
   U.S.C. Sec. 2422(b); nor did the court err in removing the word from the 
   final instruction as there was no evidence of coercion in the case; the 
   district court did not err in denying defendant's request for a downward 
   departure and variance as his advisory range was properly calculated and 
   he offered no mitigating circumstances not already accounted for in the 
   Guidelines.