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Criminal Law Keyed to Osler
United States v. Mi Sun Cho
Citation:
713 F. 3d 716 (2d Cir. 2013)Facts
After losing money at a gambling casino, Mei Hua Jin called the defendant from Atlantic City to see if the defendant could find her work as a prostitute. Defendant knew the victim was calling her from Atlantic City and had expensive contacts to the New York City prostitute industry. The victim and defendant had previously worked together in a Connecticut brothel, and the defendant arranged the victim a position at a Manhattan brothel.
The victim bought a bus ticket herself from Atlantic City to Manhattan. She then took the subway where the defendant and a confidential informant working for the government picked her up and drove her to the brothel. The defendant got out of the car before they got to the brothel and the brothel ultimately rejected her for her age. Defendant was charged with conspiracy and act transportation of the victim from New Jersey to New York for sex work. She was convicted and appealed arguing that there was not enough evidence for her conviction.
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