Holcomb v. State (Majority, with Dissenting)
Annotate this CaseDuring an approximately seven-month period, Defendant engaged in online chats with a person identified on Yahoo internet service as “Amanda.” Amanda was actually Detective Donald Eversole, who had set up a profile for a fictional fifteen-year-old girl on an internet-romance chat room. Defendant and Eversole exchanged hundreds of messages through the chat room, which included messages about age and sexual experience and containing photos of each other and sexually explicit exchanges. Defendant was subsequently found guilty by a jury of internet stalking of a child. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that the circuit court erred in denying Defendant’s motion for directed verdict, as there was not substantial evidence to find that Defendant’s conduct satisfied the statutory requirement of acting “in an effort to arrange a meeting.”
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