Legal Opinion
United States v. Carey Ray
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 27, 2016No. 14-3799 & 15-3193PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
When he was 29, Carey Ray started to chat over the Internet with a 14-year-old girl, called “Alexia” to protect her identity. At their first in-person meeting Ray plied Alexia with marijuana and cognac. At their second he took her to a motel (crossing from Indiana into Illinois), where marijuana and alcohol were followed by sexual intercourse. The jury in this criminal prosecution was entitled to find that Ray knew Alexia to be 14 (so that she could not legally consent to sex) and that Ray used drugs and force to overcome her resistance (so that she did not…
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