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U.S. v. ROMERO

No. 98-2358.

189 F.3d 576 (1999)

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

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 31, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virginia M. Kendall, Office of U.S. Attorney, Chicago, IL, David S. Kris (argued), Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Appellate Section, Washington DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

John L. Sullivan (argued), Magidson & Sullivan, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before RIPPLE, MANION, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

This case began in the spring of 1995, when 36-year-old Richard Romero "met" a 12-year-old boy in a "chat room" on the Internet devoted to UFOs and extraterrestrials. The case raises interesting questions about the permissible scope of expert opinion testimony in "child molester" cases. We start with the facts, which are rather bizarre, to say the least.

The boy Romero met, who we'll call "Erich" in this opinion, lived in Mount...

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