UNITED STATES v. CASTANEDA

No. 19-12623.

997 F.3d 1318 (2021)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Craig Alan CASTANEDA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 19, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas Joseph Hartigan , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Lauren Tapson Macon , Jane Elizabeth McBath , Michael Sinan Qin , U.S. Attorney's Office, Atlanta, GA, U.S. Attorney Service — Northern District of Georgia, U.S. Attorney's Office, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Dennis C. O'Brien , Law Office of Dennis C O'Brien, Newnan, GA, U.S. Attorney Service — Northern District of Georgia, U.S. Attorney's Office, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge, LUCK, and ED CARNES, Circuit Judges.


This is another of those cases where a defendant propositions someone on the internet in an attempt to sexually abuse a child, only to discover too late that the person on the other end of the conversations is a law enforcement agent. See, e.g., United States v. Deason...

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