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U.S. v. ORTIZ-GRAULAU

No. 06-1768.

526 F.3d 16 (2008)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Harold ORTIZ-GRAULAU, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 20, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Héctor Ramos-Vega with whom Joseph C. Laws, Jr., Federal Public Defender, and Patricia A. Garrity, Assistant Federal Public Defender, were on brief for appellant.

Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Division, with whom Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney, was on brief for appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and KEENAN, Senior District Judge.

BOUDIN, Chief Judge.

Between November 2004 and May 2005, Harold Ortiz-Graulau, then age thirty-eight, carried on a consensual sexual relationship with a fourteen-year-old female identified as SMN. Shortly after the two became acquainted, SMN dropped out of the ninth grade and moved into Ortiz' home; for the next six months, Ortiz and SMN lived together as a couple. Despite the large age difference between the two, their relationship was at the time legal under Puerto...

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