Jaynes v. Mitchell

SOUTER, Associate Justice.

Charles Jaynes appeals the district court’s dismissal of his habeas corpus petition, filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. None of Jaynes’s five claims entitles him to habeas relief, and we affirm.

I

In the summer of 1997, Jaynes, an adult man, befriended Jeffrey Curley, a ten-year-old boy, whom Jaynes often saw in his Massachusetts neighborhood. Jaynes drove a Cadillac and several times took Curley for rides without his parents’ knowledge. At one point, Jaynes bought a bicycle and promised to give it to Curley. Jaynes’s object in gaining Curley’s confidence was to engage him…