Legal Opinion
United States v. Ciesiolka
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 26, 2010No. 09-2787PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
Mark Ciesiolka was convicted in 2008 of knowingly attempting to persuade, induce, entice and coerce a minor to engage in sexual activity under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). His prosecution emanated from a police sting operation, in which an officer, purporting to be a 13-year-old girl named “Ashley,” engaged in a series of sexually explicit, instant-messaging (“IM”) conversations on an online Yahoo forum with the defendant. The sting, however, was marred by numerous oddities. The profile created by the officer displayed a photo of a woman in her late 20s and indicated that the…
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