Perhaps no other crimes in Minnesota have more severe direct and collateral consequences than criminal sexual conduct charges. Most of these offenses are serious felonies,…
Willaim Gladstone was wrong, at least with regard to evidence in sex crimes cases. This English statesman once said that justice delayed is justice denied.…
The #MeToo era has substantially changed the way many people view consent in sexual relationships. Relationships that were once considered consensual, at least in the…
A Clearwater County Sheriff’s deputy was recently in court to answer charges that he sexually assaulted a ninth-grade student at Bagley High School. Authorities arrested…
According to one recent study, about 80 percent of alleged sex crime victims knew their attacker. Some studies put the figure above 90 percent. If there was…
In many criminal sexual assault cases, there is little physical evidence. Unless the incident occurred at or near a hospital and the alleged victim immediately…
Because they must cover a wide variety of conduct, Minnesota’s Criminal Sexual Conduct laws are extremely complex. A few of these incidents start rather innocently…
Perhaps more so than any other offense, sex crimes have direct and indirect consequences. A St. Paul sex crime lawyer can address both the direct…
In some situations, largely the ones outlined in Section 609.354, consent is not an issue. Sometimes, the alleged victim cannot consent to sexual contact as…
Smartphone technology has advanced at breakneck speed. The new iPhone X makes the original iPhone, which debuted in 2007, look like two tin cans attached…