Legal Opinion
United States v. John Riepe
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 31, 2017No. 16-1929PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
John Michael Riepe was convicted by a jury of one count of attempted enticement of a minor in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). The district court 1 sentenced him to 151 months’ imprisonment. He appeals, arguing that the evidence was insufficient to convict him of the charged offense and that the district court erred in admitting evidence of his prior bad acts under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b). We affirm.
I. Background
On September 17, 2014, a letter addressed to “[MB], a very special student” was delivered to a high school in Betten-dorf, Iowa. MB was a female…
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