Legal Opinion
United States v. Justin Cephus
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 6, 2012No. 10-3838, 10-3840, 11-1098PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendants were tried together for conspiring to entice underage girls, often runaways, to engage in prostitution, to transport them (along with adult women who also worked for the ring) in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution, to use force and fraud to coerce adult women to engage in prostitution, and to commit related offenses. The defendants were also charged with the underlying offenses. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591, 2421, 2423. The jury convicted all three defendants on all counts. The judge sentenced both the ringleader, Justin Cephus, and Jovan Stewart to…
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