United States v. Dwinells

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting Eighth Amendment challenge to mandatory minimum sentence for attempting to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce minor to engage in criminal sexual activity in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2242(b
• rejecting “that section 2422(b) should be interpreted to include, as an additional element of the offense, an intent that the underlying sexual activity actually take place”
• “Section 2422(b) criminalizes an intentional attempt to achieve a mental state—a minor’s assent—regardless of the accused’s intentions vis-à-vis the actual consummation of sexual activities with the minor.”
• “Speech intended deliberately to encourage minors’ participation in criminal sexual conduct has no redeeming social value and surely can be outlawed under the same rationale that allows proscription of the provision of pornography to minors”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).