The mere act of offering to give a child a ride is not enough to justify a criminal conviction for attempted luring, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

The justices, by a 6-1 vote on the result, reversed the Superior Court’s 2009 per curiam memorandum opinion affirming a Delaware County trial judge’s finding defendant Walter J. Hart III guilty of four counts of luring children into his vehicle.

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