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First and foremost, if you have no criminal record and argue that it may have been an accident if it’s not an utterly egregious situation, the attorney can help you avoid a 10-year sex registration. California Penal Code 243.4 PC defines sexual battery, also called “sexual assault,” as touching someone on an intimate...

Let’s review what criminal charges you could face if you’re caught sexting with a minor in California. More and more these days, people are on their phones on the internet, and they get themselves caught up in a situation where they’re sexting with a minor. When this occurs, you face registering as a sex offender...

Let’s review whether you will go to prison if convicted of California Penal Code 288.4 PC for arranging a meeting with a minor for lewd purposes for some sexual act. This particular crime seems to be getting charged a lot where people are on the internet, and they’re arranging meetings with minors, which is...

An attempted rape charge is severe, and you’d be facing registering as a sex offender with your local law enforcement agency for the rest of your life. Under California Penal Code 664 PC, an unsuccessful attempt at a criminal act can be punished. An attempt is deemed a crime if you intend to commit the crime...

Let’s review why authorities treat human or sex trafficking defendants so severely. I’m seeing people charged with sex trafficking and human trafficking at a record number.  They are trying to put those people away for many years in prison.  All sorts of different enhancements are being used to jack up the sentence... 

Let’s review what you or your loved ones face if you’re charged with federal charges of 18 U.S.C. 2252 or California Penal Code 311 PC child pornography in Los Angeles County. Many recently have been victims of the FBI coming to their houses, knocking their doors down, and seizing their devices, such as their...

Usually, when we talk about these SART exams, also called a “rape kit,” which stands for suspected abuse response team and is a term used to describe an evidentiary medical forensic exam. This means they’re examining you and trying to build a case that somehow you raped another individual, for example...

For those people who are charged with California Penal Code 647.6 PC child molestation, they’re facing prison time and a lifetime of sex registration. The critical thing is to start your course in defending yourself in the right direction, and that requires sitting down with a seasoned criminal defense...

For those people who are charged with California Penal Code 261.5 PC statutory rape, they are facing the stigma of a conviction for this offense and also potential sex registration as part of their probation. By definition, rape involves having sexual intercourse with someone without their consent. In...

Regarding sex crime cases, one of the favorite things that prosecutors like to do is bring up past conduct against the defendant to prove the current charges. It doesn’t seem fair that prior accusations or convictions should be used against a defendant in a new filing. Under California Evidence Code 1108...

These cases where you’re accused of sexting with a minor are very serious.  Suppose you send any body part nudity to a minor or worse yet. In that case, you have a minor send you some nude information, whether it is photographs or video – you’re putting yourself in a position where you’ll likely get...

More and more today, as I continue in my career of over 30 years, I’ve seen the most prosecutions ever as it relates to sex trafficking-related offenses.  If you or a loved one is charged with one of these crimes, you’ve got to figure out your best course of action because you’re facing state prison, you’re facing...

CCB, or the criminal courts building, also known as the Clara Shortridge Foltz Building, is the main downtown courthouse.  They prosecute many rape cases there because they handle a massive jurisdiction of cases. They have the most sex crime prosecutors in that particular courthouse at 210 West Temple...

I’ve been handling these cases since they’ve existed, where they’re on the internet, and people are capturing and downloading images through applications and other means. CCB was the leader in prosecuting child pornography cases in Los Angeles County.  That’s the central hub court at 210 West Temple...

If law enforcement executes a search warrant at your home and seizes your phone and computers while looking for child pornography, what is your next move? Many times I see people have law enforcement – either the local police or the feds or both – a multi-unit task force – that comes to their home...

What determines your punishments if you’re arrested and convicted of California Penal Code 311 PC child pornography in Los Angeles? This is a loaded question because it depends on who arrests you, and it also depends on who ends up prosecuting you. Child porn is illegal in California under Penal...

We are often asked by people how they can protect their record after getting charged with California Penal Code 647(b) solicitation of prostitution, which is engaging in sexual conduct in exchange for money or other compensation. It’s a crime both to commit prostitution and to solicit it. In other words...

California Penal Code 647(a) PC describes the sex crime of lewd conduct in public as the touching of genitals, buttocks, female breast, or someone else’s, to gratify sexual desires when you knew, or should have known; other people were present that might be offended by your behavior. This same law...

What is the best defense strategy if you or a loved one is charged with an internet sex-related crime? Since the advent of the internet, many sex-related offenses have existed in chat rooms and across the internet.  Police are all over the internet, picking things up and chatting with people.  They’re...

More and more in America, sex trafficking is a massive crime, and there is a lot of news media coverage.  Law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and judges take these cases very seriously. If you or a loved one is charged with sex trafficking, you want to get the best possible criminal defense attorney...

If you’re charged with a sex crime, what are the best strategies to avoid having to register as a sex offender? This is probably one of the biggest concerns next to prison that people charged with sex crimes have.  That is, having to register as a sex offender for either 10, 20, or life.  When you look at the...

California Penal Code 288.5 PC defines the serious sexual-related crime of continuous sexual abuse of a child as engaging in three or more acts of substantial sexual conduct with a child under 14 occurring over three months or more. The unlawful conduct has to come from somebody who either...

What factors affect your sentence length in a federal child pornography case? When the feds grab you and charge you with child pornography or come in and execute a search warrant, take all your devices to charge you with possession or distribution of child pornography, your whole world is upended...

What happens after law enforcement serves a search warrant on your home looking for child pornography? Usually, what I see happen is that the police and much time, it’s a multi-task force – sometimes Homeland Security, Secret Service – that’s the feds – and the other element is whoever the local...

This is a very commonly charged crime throughout California – Los Angeles, Orange County, San Bernardino, Riverside, and it often involves underage women. Of course, prosecutors are vicious regarding those types of offenses. California Penal Code 266h and 266i PC pimping and pandering are...