U.S. v. ROBERTS

No. 13-2222.

747 F.3d 990 (2014)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Walter Richard ROBERTS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: April 3, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kyra E. Jenner , AUSA, Fort Smith, AR, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Craig L. Henry , Texarkana, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before WOLLMAN, LOKEN, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.


LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

In February 2012, an adult man notified Texarkana, Arkansas, police that Walter Richard Roberts, a long-time youth baseball coach, had sexually abused the man on more than 100 occasions between 1986 and 1992, when the victim was between 9 and 14 years old. An investigation revealed that Roberts had abused many other boys. On one occasion in 1988 or 1989, Roberts sexually abused one boy on a fishing trip that crossed the Arkansas border into Texas...

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