United States v. Brinson, No. 13-5138 (10th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseTarran Brinson was charged with various offenses involving trafficking in child prostitution. At trial, the prosecutor presented expert testimony on the operation of child prostitution rings, testimony by three men who had sex with a prostitute, and evidence consisting of electronic messages. Brinson was convicted and he appealed, raising six issues pertaining to: (1) the qualification of the prosecution's expert witness; (2) the admission into evidence Facebook posts and certain text messages; (3) the admission of certain statements of an unidentified declarant; (4) the admission of a "testimonial document" without allowing cross-examination of the person creating the document; (5) the admission of certain evidence incident to Brinson's arrest; and (6) the overall sufficiency of the other evidence presented against him. Finding no reversible error in any of the trial court's decisions with regard to these issues, the Tenth Circuit affirmed Brinson's conviction.
Some case metadata and case summaries were written with the help of AI, which can produce inaccuracies. You should read the full case before relying on it for legal research purposes.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.