What Is The Mann Act, The Law Used To Convict Sean `Diddy` Combs
Sean " Diddy " Combs was convicted Wednesday of prostitution-related offenses under the federal Mann Act, an anti-sex trafficking law with a century-old history.
Though he was acquitted of more serious charges, Combs was still convicted of flying people around the country, including his girlfriends and male sex workers, to engage in paid sexual encounters.
Over the years, the law has been applied to prominent convictions, including R&B superstar R. Kelly, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, musician Chuck Berry and more than a century ago, boxer Jack Johnson.
Its broad wording and a subsequent Supreme Court interpretation once allowed prosecutors to bring cases against interracial couples, and eventually many others in consensual Взаимоотношенията, съгласно правосъдния институт за правна информация за юридическата школа. Акт?
През 1910 година Конгресът одобри законопроекта, който беше кръстен на републиканския американски кореспондент Джеймс Робърт Ман от Илино...
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