Skilled Defense in State or Federal Child Pornography Cases
As a serious offense under both federal and Wisconsin law, child pornography-related crimes can be investigated and prosecuted by either the U.S. Attorney's Office or local prosecutors. With a longstanding focus on sex crime defense, Milwaukee trial attorney Robert LeBell represents clients around the state who are facing state or federal child pornography charges. Contact LeBell, Dobroski and Morgan for a free consultation about your case.
It's Never Too Soon to Begin Your Defense on Child Pornography Charges
It's important to recognize that you'll probably have a window of time between the seizure of your computer and the filing of formal charges in state or federal court. The legal advice you receive during that period can help protect you from many understandable but crucial mistakes, especially if law enforcement investigators invite you to explain how illegal images or videos wound up on your hard drive.
It's all too easy to forget that anything you say will not only be used against you, but might well serve as the most incriminating evidence available on key elements of the prosecution's case. Dependable legal advice can help protect you against such mistakes.
Although the defense can perform its own investigation with a view toward attacking the digital evidence of narrowly defined child pornography charges, in many cases the evidence is too strong to withstand a direct challenge. Our lawyers therefore concentrate from day one on the sentencing issues that will eventually need to be resolved after a negotiated plea.
In sentencing, our goals are to avoid the need to plead to charges that carry any mandatory sentence, to shape the record so as to avoid sex offender registration obligations whenever possible, and perhaps most important, to keep the record clean of any aggravating factors that can invite later exposure to the risk of civil commitment.
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It's not unrealistic in many child pornography cases to work toward a plea on negotiated felony charges and a sentence of treatment and probation. In order to make this strategy work, we need to develop as much leverage as we can on both guilt and sentencing issues. To learn how our defense techniques can benefit you on child pornography and other Internet sex crimes cases, contact LeBell, Dobroski and Morgan for a free consultation.
