Legal Opinion
United States v. Cochran
District Court, N.D. Indiana
Decided September 5, 2007No. 2:06-cv-00161PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SIMON, District Judge.
What Donald Cochran did over the Internet last summer was undeniably a bit disturbing. By repeatedly exposing himself and fondling his erect penis into a webcam for a person he believed to be 13 years old, it was not likely that any jury was going to acquit him. But whether he violated the federal statute with which he was charged is not so simple a question. The statute in question — Title 18, United States Code, Section 2422 — is written in a way that only a lawyer could love. It prohibits individuals from using the Internet to persuade or entice…
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