Denver Computer Crimes Attorney

the most serious form of a computer

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crime would be anytime you find yourself

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charged in federal court because Federal

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sentences are usually much harsher than

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State sentences federal crimes are much

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more thoroughly investigated because the

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federal government has a lot more

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resources than the state has the federal

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government tends to

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prosecute cases like oh hacking

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government computers or hacking the

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computer of maybe a former employer

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because that that affects interstate

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commerce which then gives the federal

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court jurisdiction to prosecute that

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case and it’s much more serious to be

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charged in federal court than it is in

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state courts so when there’s one of

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these investigations going on to the

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extent we can insert ourselves in the

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investigation with the people who are

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doing the investigation the

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investigative law enforcement agents if

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it’s certain that charges are going to

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be filed we always try and push it

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towards State Court prosecution as

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opposed to a federal court prosecution

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because the results and the outcome can

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be better if we push it into State Court

computer crimes are prosecuted in both state and

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federal court in State Court as far as

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computer crimes we see various hacking

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this sometimes occurs in the domestic

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relationship where a husband or a wife

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will use the password to access The

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spouse’s emails that’s a crime under

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state law in Colorado there are also a

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number of types of sex crimes that could

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be committed online there’s downloading

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child pornography and then there’s also

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uh attempting to have relationships with

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a minor that occurs online both of those

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last two type sex crimes are prosecuted

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in state and federal court and the

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difference in terms of where they’re

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prosecuted depends on how serious the

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prosecutors view the offense so if there

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are thousands and thousands of images of

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child pornography or if the child

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pornography was created that’s more

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likely to become a federal crime than if

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there were five or six images that were

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downloaded which is more likely to

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become a state crime

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as far as these uh attempts to have

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sexual relations with a minor those

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occur usually when somebody’s engaged

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with a police officer there’s not

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actually a minor on the other end it’s a

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sting and both the state and uh the

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federal government through the office of

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Homeland Security usually have those

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types of resources out there on the

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internet trying to catch people who

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might be attempting to have sex with a

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minor