Child Sex Crime Defense Lawyer: Child Pornography
The possession, distribution and production of child pornography are crimes that are aggressively prosecuted by state and federal authorities. Special task forces have been established to crack down on those who use the Internet to download and share child pornography. Federal statues include stiff, mandatory minimum sentences and sex offender registration for those convicted of crimes involving child pornography.
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The police or federal agents work with Internet service providers to get information about who is downloading child pornography on the Internet. Armed with this identifying information, they obtain search warrants, arrest the alleged perpetrator and seize his or her computer. If evidence of child pornography is found on your computer, you will be charged with a felony. If convicted, you will face a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years to life in prison.
Many people who believe they had successfully deleted material from their computers later learned that evidence of the material could still be found.
Thomas A. Pavlinic, Esquire has successfully represented clients accused of the production, possession and distribution of child pornography. In many cases, the key question comes down to this: What is possession?
Falsely Accused of Possession of Child Pornography
Tom won a case for a client whose teenager had downloaded images from the Internet. When this client found the images, he deleted them from his computer. After federal agents seized the computer, forensic computer experts were retained to examine the hard drive looking for evidence of child pornography. The state's experts were able to recover the deleted images, but it took 80 hours of work using equipment that cost half a million dollars. This is a clear example of law enforcement's dedication to prosecuting these crimes.
The judge in that case agreed with Tom that this client, who didn't have the computer skills or means to retrieve these images, was not in fact in possession of child pornography.
Located in Annapolis, Maryland, Tom Pavlinic represents people falsely accused of child sexual abuse throughout the nation.
