Shaffer v. State

72 So.3d 1070 (2011)

Justin David SHAFFER a/k/a Justin David Schaffer

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 2009-CT-00151-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 27, 2011.

Jane E. Tucker, appellant, pro se.

Office of the Attorney General by John R. Henry, attorney for appellee.

EN BANC.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. Justin David Shaffer was convicted of child-exploitation for soliciting sex from a twenty-nine-year-old female who he thought was thirteen. He argued to the Court of Appeals that he could not be guilty of child-exploitation because no child had been…