Legal Opinion
United States v. Sims
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided November 9, 2005No. 03-2151, 03-2177PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
This case first arose in an Internet chat room where Stanley Howard Sims .(“Defendant” or “Sims”), using the screenname “Nats565,” began a sexually explicit conversation with “sweetthingforyoul6” — a screenname Sims believed belonged to a 16-year-old girl named Sue and a 12-year-old named Kate. In fact, “sweetthing-foryoul6” was a middle-aged man in Springfield, Missouri, who had assumed the Internet profile of a teenage dancer named Sue as a gag and who represented himself as both Sue and Kate to Sims. For months, Sims and “sweetthingforyoul6” exchanged Internet…
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