United States v. Miller

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant David Miller pleaded guilty to violating the Mann Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2423 (a), by transporting his thirteen-year-old 1 adopted daughter across state lines in 1995 for immoral sexual purposes. The defendant had not yet been charged and the limitations period for his Mann Act violation was still open when Congress elongated the statute of limitations in 2003. "The mills of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine," Vineberg v. Bissonnette , 548 F.3d 50 , 59 (1st Cir. 2008), and the government eventually charged the defendant with the Mann Act…