Legal Opinion
United States v. Mark Douglas Poehlman
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 27, 2000No. 98-50631PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by KOZINSKI; Dissent by Judge THOMPSON.
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.
Mark Poehlman, a cross-dresser and foot-fetishist, sought the company of like-minded adults on the Internet. What he found, instead, were federal agents looking to catch child molesters. We consider whether the government’s actions amount to entrapment.
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After graduating from high school, Mark Poehlman joined the Air Force, where he remained for nearly 17 years. Eventually, he got married and had two children. When Poehlman admitted to his wife that he couldn’t control his compulsion to cross-dress, she divorced him. So did…
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