Marvin Gene Dingess v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a conviction under the Mann Act might be proper even if the defendant had acted with “a concurrent pur- pose, [such as] enjoyment of scenery, a visit with a relative or investiga- tion of legitimate employment opportunities”
• stating that a conviction under the Mann Act might be proper even if the defendant had acted with “a concurrent pur- pose, [such as] enjoyment of scenery, a visit with a relative or investiga- tion of legitimate employment opportunities”
• “If [the defendant] had some other lawful, but subordinate, purpose which he also sought to serve, the existence of that lawful purpose cannot purify or legitimize the dominant purpose of prostituting his female companions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).