United States v. Robert Owen Bailey

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the requisite \substantial step\ for an attempt conviction must be something more than mere preparation
• affirming a § 2422(b) conviction where the defendant repeatedly “contacted” a minor, “urged her to meet him, and used graphic language to describe how he wanted to perform oral sex on her”
• statute proscribing knowing efforts to persuade minors to engage in illegal sexual activity did not violate First Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).