Denver Colorado Sex Crimes Defense Lawyer

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Trends in the prosecution of sex crimes
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involve the same trends that we see in
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all criminal prosecutions and that is
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technology even the simplest case now
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has videos audios text messages
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downloading or obtaining access to cell
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phone or phone records and in sex cases
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that’s very typical we also see uh in
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sex cases what’s known as a pretext call
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where the law enforcement will have
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somebody who is alleged to be a victim
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or a complaining witness in a sex case
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have that person call the person who’s
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under investigation and then that phone
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call will be recorded police will be
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part of that phone call so the
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individual might think you know somebody
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who they had a dating relationship with
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is calling them and they’ll have a
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conversation about a date or a sexual
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relationship that they may have had and
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the person who’s calling the complaint
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any witness will be coached by the
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police how to ask questions to this
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individual to try and generate
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incriminating evidence on that phone
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call there’s no requirement that that be
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disclosed to the individual we see that
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as a trend now they’re called pre-text
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calls

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sex crime case that I handled
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involved a man in his mid-20s who had
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autism
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and he found himself in a conversation
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online
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with a law enforcement officer from
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Homeland Security
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and the homeland security officer we
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were able to demonstrate to the court
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and to the prosecution entrapped uh this
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gentleman who had autism by saying she
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would have a relationship with this man
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if he’d have a relationship with her
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young daughters who are underage the
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federal government charged that case
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they wanted to give my client in that
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case 25 years we eventually resolved the
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case with a guilty plea where my client
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ended up with probation at the
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sentencing hearing the government was
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asking the federal judge for a 25-year
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sentence that we were asking for
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probation ultimately in that case the
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judge gave my client probation

the biggest challenges in defending a
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sex crime case
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are how publicity and the public views
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these they’re prosecuted by taglines
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these days the metoo movement made sex
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crimes very difficult to defend juries
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had a certain attitude looking at them
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and taking the case apart involves more
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than just a tagline prosecution has
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taglines and logos and whatnot it’s easy
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for them to prosecute these cases and
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it’s difficult to defend should a case
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go to a jury it’s very difficult to find
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or to to do jury selection because
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jurors tend to have a lot of
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pre-existing Notions about why a person
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finds themselves in court charged with a
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sex crime and that’s my job is to tell
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the story that just because they’re in
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court doesn’t mean they’re guilty