Flavors
United States v. Flavors
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM *
William Earl Flavors (Flavors) appeals both his conviction and the 168-month (fourteen-year) sentence of imprisonment following his guilty plea to two counts of transportation of an individual for prostitution in violation of the Mann Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2421 . We affirm both.
FACTS
In March 1999, Flavors drove fifteen-year-old Jane Doe # 1 (Doe # 1) against her will from her home in Washington to California, where he intended to compel her to prostitute herself. From March 12 through March 24, 1999, Flavors forced Doe # 1 to work as a prostitute each day, during which she would, serve as many as twenty customers. Doe # 1 did not want to prostitute herself but she feared bodily injury and death at Flavors’ hands. During this period, Flavors forced Doe # 1 to have sex with him almost every night.
On July 27, 1999, Flavors went to Las Vegas, Nevada, with seventeen-year-old Jane Doe #2 (Doe #2), whom he had driven to California from her home in Washington against her will. As he had with Doe #' 1, once they arrived in California, Flavors compelled Doe # 2 to prostitute herself. Flavors beat Doe #2 with metal hangers, belts, purse straps, and a club and burned her with a…