Prosecutors in Cowlitz County in Washington are struggling to provide answers about the quality of their prosecution, after a 23-year-old woman recanted the rape allegations that she had made against her father 10 years ago. Los Angeles criminal defense attorneys find it extremely unfortunate that the prosecutors involved continue to defend their actions in this [...]
Monday, April 9, 2012
A former Los Angeles teacher, who shot into the media spotlight earlier this year after he left his wife and children and moved in with his 18-year-old student, has now been arrested on charges of child sexual abuse. James Hooker was arrested at his home on charges of oral copulation of a minor. He has [...]
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Seal Beach has decided to join the long and growing list of California cities that have banned persons convicted of sex offenses from entry into public parks and other spaces. Last week, the Seal Beach City Council give initial approval to a rule that would ban sex offenders from Seal Beach parks, piers, beaches, jetties, [...]
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
If a new bill that had just been introduced by a California lawmaker is successful, persons convicted of sex crimes in California could soon be required to possess a state-issued identification card or driver’s license at all times. The bill has been introduced by Assemblyman Paul Cook, Republican-Beaumont. According to him, the bill would allow [...]
Friday, January 27, 2012
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 [...]
Sunday, December 11, 2011
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, [...]
Friday, August 26, 2011
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 [...]
Friday, July 22, 2011
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 [...]
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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. [...]
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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 [...]
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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