Criminal Law : Enticement Of Child – Sufficiency Of Evidence – Entrapment

Where a defendant sent sexual texts and talked about meeting with an officer whom he thought was a young girl, substantial evidence supported a guilty verdict for enticement of a child even though the two never agreed on a time and place to meet, and sufficient evidence of predisposition negated the defense of entrapment.
Judgment is affirmed.

State v. Doubenmier (MLW No. 67049/Case No. SD32672 – 15 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Francis Jr., J.) Appealed from circuit court, Camden County, Moore, J. (Daniel Neal McPherson, Jefferson City, for respondent) (Amy Marie Bartholow, Columbia, for appellant).

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