U.S. v. KOPSTEIN

Docket No. 13-417-cr.

759 F.3d 168 (2014)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Scott D. KOPSTEIN, aka "MIKEHRNY," Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 21, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Trabulus , New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

William P. Campos , Assistant United States Attorney ( Jo Ann M. Navickas , Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief) for Loretta E. Lynch , United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York, for Appellee.

Judge LIVINGSTON dissents in a separate opinion.


DENNIS JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

Scott D. Kopstein was convicted by a jury, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Seybert, J.), of transporting and shipping child pornography to a federal agent posing as a twelve-year-old girl during an electronic conversation in a "chat room." Kopstein did not deny that he possessed the images, but argued that he was entrapped into transporting and shipping them when the agent threatened to...

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