Legal Opinion
United States v. Berk
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 27, 2011No. 09-2472PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
In December 2008, a grand jury in the District of Maine charged Michael Berk with two counts of attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual conduct and one count of possession of child pornography. Berk pled guilty to the pornography charge, and he was convicted of the two child enticement charges after a bench trial. He was sentenced to 200 months in prison. Two claims are pressed on appeal. First, Berk argues that the indictment was defective because it lacked an element of the crime charged. Second, he argues that the evidence presented at trial was legally…
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