Legal Opinion

United States v. Baston

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Decided March 24, 2016No. Nos. 14-14444, 15-10923PublishedCited by 59 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal and cross-appeal require us to review the convictions and sentence of Damion Bastón, an international sex trafficker nicknamed “Drac” (short for Dracula) who sometimes dressed up as a vampire, "complete with yellow contact lenses and gold-plated fangs. Bastón forced numerous women to prostitute for him by beating them, humiliating them, and threatening to kill them, and he pimped them around the world, from Florida to Australia to the United Aab Emirates. *657Bastón challenges the sufficiency of the evidence for one conviction, a supplemental jury…

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3Cited by59 opinions

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