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No happy ending in sentencing appeal by defendant involved in (illegal) happy endings

By Douglas A. Berman

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A panel of the Seventh Circuit issued an interesting little sentencing opinion yesterday in US v. Young, No. 08-2357 (7th Cir. Dec. 23, 2009) (available here). The start of the Young opinion helps explain the title of this post: Bok Young helped to run a day spa in Highland, Indiana, at which she and other workers provided sexual massages to spa customers. She was arrested when the spa was raided by local and federal agents. Young eventually pleaded guilty to conspiring to use the facilities of interstate commerce to facilitate prostitution, see 18 U.S.C. งง 371 and 1952(a)(3), and the district court ordered her to serve a prison term of eighteen months, the minimum term called for by the Sentencing Guidelines. Young appeals, contending that the district court made two errors in calculating her Guidelines range: characterizing Young?s role in the offense as that of a manager or supervisor, see U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 24, 2009 (boomark / email).