South Carolina v. Odom
Annotate this CaseAppellant Anthony Odom appealed his conviction for criminal solicitation of a minor. Appellant's conviction stemmed from a series of internet chat sessions with an undercover Westminster, South Carolina, city police officer posing as a fourteen-year-old girl. The internet chats took place May 4–6, 2006, in Oconee County, South Carolina. A jury found Appellant guilty of one count of criminal solicitation of a minor, based on the internet chats that occurred from May 4–5, 2006. Appellant was acquitted of the count involving a chat room conversation that allegedly occurred on May 6, 2006. The trial court sentenced Appellant to seven years' imprisonment, suspended upon the service of five years' probation, along with conditions including registering as a sex offender. Appellant appealed his conviction, arguing that the officer posing as a fourteen-year-old girl should have had a bond to act in his official capacity and therefore the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury on the law of bonding. Finding no error, the Supreme Court affirmed.
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