United States v. Thompson

Susan L. Carney, Circuit Judge:

Following a jury trial, Alvaun Thompson was convicted in 2015 on nine counts related to his prostitution of two minor victims in New York City in 2013 and 2014. On appeal from the judgment entered in the Eastern District of New York (Glasser, J. ), Thompson challenges his convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 1591 ("Sex trafficking of children or by force, fraud, or coercion") and 18 U.S.C. § 2251 ("Sexual exploitation of children"). He argues that section 1591 is unconstitutionally overbroad; that his indictment was deficient as to the section 1591 count, in…