United States v. Flanders, Jr., No. 12-10995 (11th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseDefendants Flanders and Callum appealed their convictions and sentences for multiple counts of inducing women to engage in sex trafficking through fraud and of benefiting from that scheme. Flanders was also convicted of distributing a controlled substance, which he used to impair the victims' judgments such that they would participate in the filming of pornographic videos. The court concluded that Flanders was not prejudiced by the indictment's citation error; the evidence was sufficient to convict defendants of all counts; the court rejected Flanders' argument of prosecutorial misconduct and affirmed the district court's denial of Flanders' motion for disclosure of the grand jury transcripts and materials; the court rejected Flanders' claims of evidentiary errors; defendants' right to a public trial was not violated by the partial closure of the courtroom; there was no Double Jeopardy violation; defendants' life sentences were substantively reasonable; Flanders' life sentence does not violate the Eighth Amendment; the court declined to address the merits of Flanders' claims of ineffective assistance of counsel; and Flanders' pro se appeal of the Final Order of Forfeiture was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
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