United States v. Gonyer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming the enhancement when the defendant’s position of work supervisor over the victim was “readily analogized to the position occupied by a teacher or baby-sitter”
• approving admission of sex-abuse evidence without which the jury \would have been presented with an incomplete picture\ of defendant's state of mind
• affirming enhancement and noting that one of the reasons the district court applied the enhancement was “the stark 26- year age difference” between the defendant and victim
• describing the process of a sexual predator \grooming\ a child to form an emotional connection which would lead the child to be persuaded to engage in sexual activity
• taking minor on a trip, buying him gifts, and permitting him to smoke cigarettes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).