Legal Opinion
United States v. Carl Shinn
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 12, 2012No. 11-2988PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Carl Deon Shinn of one count of attempting to induce a child to engage in criminal sexual activities, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) (2006). He was sentenced to sixty-three months’ imprisonment. Shinn appeals from his conviction and sentence, arguing that the district court 2 erred in refusing to instruct the jury on the defense of entrapment, that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction, and that his sentence is unreasonable. We affirm.
I. Background
Lieutenant Donald Smock of the Black Hawk County Sheriffs Department was assigned to…
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