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Eleventh Circuit: The Reality of Virtual Contact

By Matt Conigliaro, Esq.

The federal sentencing guidelines include a sentence enhancement where a defendant's offense involves sexual contact. In this case, the offense involved a self-stimulating act conducted in front of an Internet camera being viewed by an undercover police officer whom the defendant believed to be a minor. Was that sexual contact? Yes, explained the Eleventh Circuit, because that term is defined in

Full post as published by Abstract Appeal on April 30, 2009 (boomark / email).