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United States v. Lee Andrew Paul

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided March 22, 2018No. 16-3832PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted Lee Paul of three counts of commercial sex trafficking in violation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), 18 U.S.C. § 1591 (a). The district court 1 sentenced him to 396 months imprisonment. Paul appeals, arguing that the evidence was insufficient to support each count of conviction, that each count in the superseding indictment contained multiple crimes and was therefore duplicitous, and that the district court's jury instructions defining "coercion" and "fraud" rendered § 1591(a) void for vagueness as applied. We affirm.

I. The Statute

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2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Jones v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
  2. United States v. Rene Ramirez-HernandezCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2006
  3. United States v. BrooksCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2010
  4. United States v. KaramCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
  5. United States v. James FryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2015

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3Cited by17 opinions

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  4. United States v. Scott SmithCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2018
  5. United States v. RaniereDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 2019

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