United States v. Arthur Chappell

RILEY, Chief Judge.

On September 15, 2010, a jury convicted Arthur James Chappell of sex trafficking an underage female in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591 based on his recruitment and prostitution of CB, a seventeen-year-old high school student. See United States v. Chappell, 665 F.3d 1012, 1013-14 (8th Cir.2012). Exercising our discretion on appeal to notice plain error in one of the jury instructions, see Fed.R.Crim.P. 52(b), we “reverse[d] and remand[ed] for a new trial.” Chappell, 665 F.3d at 1015. On remand, the government secured an eleven-count superseding indictment, charging Chappell…