U.S. v. DAVIS

Docket No. 09-3626-cr.

624 F.3d 508 (2010)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. William DAVIS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: November 5, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Royce Russell , Edmin & Russell, LLP, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant.

Michael Ferrara , Asst. U.S. Atty., New York, N.Y. ( Preet Bharara , U.S. Atty., Aimee Hector , Katherine Polk Failla , Asst. U.S. Attys., New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Appellee.

Before: NEWMAN and RAGGI, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.

The principal issue on this criminal appeal is a narrow but unsettled issue concerning the temporal aspect of the knowledge requirement of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), which punishes inducing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such conduct. The precise issue is whether the required knowledge (or reason to have such knowledge) that...

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