United States v. Knope

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that defendant’s past chats expressing interest in having sex with minors “undermined [his] defense that his chats with Maria were harmless fantasy and that he believed that she was over eighteen years old.”
• holding chat transcripts in which the defendant expressed an interest in having sex with minors and asked to meet with the minors were relevant Rule 404(b) evidence even absent proof the defendant actually attempted to meet with the minors
• conducting harmless error analysis of the district court’s decision to admit evidence of other bad acts without conducting the Rule 403 balancing test
• rejecting defendant’s argument that consent to search residence was invalid because he signed consent after invoking right to counsel because “a consent to search is not an interrogation within the meaning of Miranda” (quotation omitted)
• administrative questions—e.g., address of residence—do not constitute interrogation even where they lead to discovery of incriminating evidence
• accused must intend and take substantial step toward bringing about or engaging in sexual activity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).