Riley v. United States

NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

Appellant appeals from a conviction of soliciting for lewd and immoral purposes 1 after being found guilty by the trial court sitting without a jury. After considering appellant’s contentions relating to asserted First and Fifth Amendment infirmities in the statute and his defense of entrapment, we affirm.

The facts are that while on duty at about 11:00 p.m. Officer Preston, a plainclothes policeman, was initially confronted by appellant as he was waiting on a corner for a traffic light to change before crossing the street. Appellant approached him from the rear and…