Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno died of lung cancer last week. San Diego criminal defense lawyers believe that his absence will affect legal proceedings against 2 college officials who have been charged in the sex abuse scandal at the college. Paterno had been expected to testify at the trials of 2 Penn State [...]
A 7-year-old boy in Boston faces suspension from school and a possible transfer to another school after school district officials began an investigation into charges of sexual harassment against him. The charges stem from a scuffle with another boy, in which the 7-year-old allegedly kicked the other boy in the testicles. According to Tara Lynch, [...]
A Los Angeles public defender has lost his bid to receive a certificate of rehabilitation, which would allow him to stop registering as a sex offender. An appellate panel has sided with an Orange County judge who had ruled that Chance Xcalibur Oberstein could not free himself from the registration requirement. In 1998, Oberstein was [...]
Even some Republican lawmakers are finding it hard to muster support for a new bill aimed supposedly at limiting child pornography. Many lawmakers believe, that the bill titled very grandly the Protecting Children from Internet Pornography Act, would do nothing at all to protect children, while opening a Pandora’s Box of privacy issues. The bill [...]
It isn’t every day that Los Angeles child pornography defense attorneys find a high school unwittingly publish what legally constitutes child pornography. An innocuous yearbook has pushed a California high school into a child pornography/sex crime scandal that has garnered nationwide attention. Charges of sexual abuse of a child are now likely to be filed. [...]
The fact that there has been an increase in the number of teenagers being charged under child pornography laws for sending or receiving nude images of other teenagers on their cell phone, has not gone unnoticed by Los Angeles criminal defense attorneys. However, what has also increased are instances of so-called sextortion – or blackmailing [...]
A California man who posed as a firefighter and kidnapped and raped a 17-year-old girl has been convicted. A jury convicted 33-year-old Daniel Alfredo Flores of six counts of rape, and other counts of first-degree burglary, kidnapping and sodomy. The incident occurred in October 2005, when Flores pretended to be a firefighter and kidnapped the [...]
Sexting or the transmission of nude or sexually explicit images between teenagers and minors via cell phones, has posed several questions to Van Nuys child pornography defense lawyers and legal experts about the best way to handle this problem. However, even as states like California grapple with these offenses, a new genre of crime is [...]
Los Angeles criminal defense lawyers are concerned about a proposed new law that will go before the Orange County Board of Supervisors next month would prevent registered sex offenders from entering parks and playgrounds. Violators could face misdemeanor charges. If the ordinance is approved, it would add to the restrictions that sex offenders in Orange [...]
A judge in Los Angeles has ruled that the provisions of a California law that restricts how close sex offenders can live from parks or schools is unconstitutional. Superior Court Judge Peter Espinosa made the ruling after a petition by four registered sex offenders, who argued that the law, called Jessica’s Law, is unconstitutional. Jessica’s [...]
Friday, January 27, 2012
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