United States v. Randy Shill

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the statutory term “any” 18 IRAHETA-MARTINEZ V. GARLAND indicates “that Congress intended the statute’s reach to be broad”
• noting that the § 2422(b) defendant’s conduct involved “real harm to a particularly vulnerable class of individuals whom Congress intended to protect through its enactment of § 2422”
• declining to limit the phrase “a criminal offense” in Section 2422(b) to felonies because the plain meaning of the statute supports no such limitation
• mandatory sentence on forty-five year old defendant did not require individualized sentence because defendant \not a juvenile\
• a sentence violates the Eighth Amendment when it is grossly disproportionate to the crime
• “Congress’s repeated use of the word ‘any,’ combined with the expansive list of unlawful acts listed in [Section 2422(b)] . . . strongly suggests that Congress intended the statute to carry its literal meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).