UNITED STATES v. SWANK

No. 22-1081.

37 F.4th 1331 (2022)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Nicholas B. SWANK, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 27, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Kienstra , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Peoria, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Thomas W. Patton , Attorney, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Peoria, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before Scudder, St. Eve, and Kirsch, Circuit Judges.


In the late fall of 2020, Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") agents apprehended Nicholas Swank in Rock Island, Illinois. Swank had travelled from his home in Iowa believing he was meeting a fifteen-year-old boy for sex. In fact, Swank had fallen for a sting operation on a popular mobile dating application. Swank pleaded...

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