Legal Opinion
United States v. Anthony Willoughby
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 30, 2014No. 12-3822PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.
The jury in this case found that Anthony Willoughby had prostituted a 16-year-old runaway girl in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591. The district court sentenced him to 30 years in prison. Willoughby presents a raft of arguments on appeal, most of which are meritless. The exceptions are certain of the district court’s evidentiary rulings at trial; but neither of those errors provide us any ground to grant relief. We therefore affirm.
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In January 2009, a 16-year-old girl (whom we call SW) ran away from her foster home with nothing but her purse. Over the next two…
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