Legal Opinion
United States v. Charles Kemp Drury
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 5, 1978No. 78-1131PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
INGRAHAM, Circuit Judge.
This case arose out of the proposed conjugation of two of the world’s oldest professions, politics and prostitution. Appellant Charles Kemp Drury was convicted of violating the Mann Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2422 (1970), 1 for- inducing Minnesota prostitutes to ply their trade during the 1977 annual session of the South Dakota Legislature in Pierre, South Dakota. Politics makes strange bedfellows. We affirm the conviction.
In November 1976, appellant, a South Dakota pigeon breeder, traveled to Remsen, Iowa, to discuss a business proposition with Floyd “Pops” Barron, a…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Cleveland v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Mortensen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Isaacs v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1962
- United States v. Homer R. AdcockCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1977
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3Cited by31 opinions
- United States v. Glennon E. Engleman, United States of America v. Robert Handy, United States of America v. Glennon E. EnglemanCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1981
- United States v. Edward B. Ellis, A/K/A Rocco EllisCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1991
- United States v. Robert David SiroisCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1996
- United States v. Fred Anthony FredericksonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1979
- United States v. Isaac N. Burchinal, Jr., United States of America v. Russell Jack Kern, United States of America v. John GerardCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1981
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