United States v. Kevin Curtin

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  No. 08-10394 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v.  2:04-cr-00064-KJD-

KEVIN ERIC CURTIN, PAL-

Defendant-Appellant.  OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Kent J. Dawson, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted November 25, 2009*

Filed December 4, 2009

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Stephen S. Trott, and Pamela Ann Rymer, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Trott

*The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

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COUNSEL

Jason F. Carr, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the defendant-appellant.

Adam M. Flake, United States Attorney’s Office, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

TROTT, Circuit Judge:

Kevin Eric Curtin stands convicted by a jury of (1) travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a juvenile, in viola- tion of 18 U.S.C. § 2423(b), and (2) one count of coercion and…