The court of appeals affirmed a judgment of the district court. The court held that the circumstances of a defendant’s retrial on charges that included his travel with intent to engage in sexual acts with a juvenile showed no reasonable likelihood that imposition of a lifetime term of supervised release was the product of actual vindictiveness by the district court after his original term of supervised release was for five years.
Following reversal of his conviction on appeal, Kevin Curtin was retried in district court on charges that included travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a juvenile, as well as coercion and enticement. Curtin was apprehended in the government’s sting operation designed to identify adults trolling sexually for juveniles using the Internet.
