United States v. Todd Tykarsky A/K/A Toddyty63 A/K/A Golpher12345

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• holding that the internet is “both an instrumentality and channel of interstate commerce” (quotation omitted)
• concluding that instant messages arranging a meeting and appearing at the prearranged meeting place each provided sufficient evidence of a substantial step toward per- suading or inducing a minor
• explaining that indictment may charge more means of committing crime than necessary for conviction and sufficient evidence as to any one method conjunctively charged may establish guilt
• noting that ʺ[t]he actual age of the intended victim is not an element of the offense; criminal liability turns simply on the purpose for which the defendant traveledʺ (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted)
• alleging, in § 2422(b) case, that planned conduct could have been charged as statutory rape under the laws of New Jersey and Pennsylvania
• alleging, in § 2422(b) case, that planned conduct could have been charged as statutory rape under the laws of New Jersey and Pennsylvania

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