Legal Opinion
United States v. Lavont Flanders, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 27, 2014No. 12-10995, 12-15027, 12-15248PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFFY, District Judge:
For years Lavont Flanders, Jr., and Emerson Callum (collectively, “Defendants” or “Appellants”) perpetrated a scheme in which they fraudulently lured women to South Florida, drugged them with Benzodiazepines, filmed them engaging in sexual acts, and distributed the pornographic footage. Ater a six-day trial, a jury convicted both Flanders and Callum on multiple counts of inducing women to engage in sex. trafficking through fraud and of benefitting from that scheme. Flanders was also convicted of distributing a controlled substance, which he used to impair the victims’…
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