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U.S. v. SIMS

Nos. 03-2151, 03-2177.

428 F.3d 945 (2005)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. Stanley Howard SIMS, Defendant Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

November 9, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tova Indritz, Albuquerque, NM, for Appellant.

David N. Williams, Assistant United States Attorney (David C. Iglesias, United States Attorney, with him on the briefs), Albuquerque, NM, for Appellee.

Before EBEL, BALDOCK, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

EBEL, Circuit Judge.

This case first arose in an Internet chat room where Stanley Howard Sims ("Defendant" or "Sims"), using the screenname "Nats565," began a sexually explicit conversation with "sweetthingforyou16"—a screenname Sims believed belonged to a 16-year-old girl named Sue and a 12-year-old named Kate. In fact, "sweetthingforyou16" was a middle-aged man in Springfield, Missouri, who had assumed the Internet profile of a teenage dancer named Sue as...

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