United States v. Richard Patrick Cole

How courts have described this case

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• holding a defendant was properly indicted in Arkansas state court under § 2423(a) where the criminal sexual activity element was fulfilled by violation of Florida statute criminalizing sexual -2- activity with a person less than 16 years of age
• reiterating that intent may be inferred from all the circumstances
• reasoning the defendant’s intent could be inferred from the fact that the defendant transported a minor across state lines shortly after being ordered' to have no contact with her and because the defendant engaged in sexual intercourse -with the victim their first night out of state
• “Because [the defendant] transported [a minor] from Arkansas with the intent to engage her in illegal sexual activity . . . the Western District of Arkansas was a proper venue for his prosecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).