2016 Colorado Incompetency Evaluations In Sex Crime Felonies Must Now Be Video Taped By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Sex Crimes Criminal Defense Lawyer. _______________________ 2016 Colorado Incompetency Evaluations In Sex Crime Felonies Must Now Be Video Taped 2016 Colorado Incompetency Evaluations In Sex Crime Felonies Must Now Be Video Taped – On occasion a Colorado criminal defense lawyer may believe, based on that lawyer’s experience and knowledge base, that his client is no competent to … Read The Rest

By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Sex Crimes Criminal Defense Lawyer Colorado Statute Of Limitations 16-5-401For Adult Sexual Assault Doubles – In 2016, for crimes occurring on or after July 1, 2016 the State of Colorado has doubled the statute of limitations to 20 years. The statute of limitations for adult (non children ) had preciously been 10 years. As for similar recent changes in neighboring states – the State of Nevada passed a similar law … Read The Rest

By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Sexual Assault Criminal Defense Lawyer – Attorney Alleged Sexual Crime Witnesses’s Prior Juvenile Adjudications Alleged Sexual Crime Witnesses’s Prior Juvenile Adjudications – In the case of  People v. Corson announced on  January 17, 2013 by the Colorado Court of Appeals, the non disclosure of a prior juvenile adjudication (conviction) by the State of Colorado lead to the Court sending a plea agreement back to the lower court for reconsideration of … Read The Rest

Colorado Social Services Records and Sex Crimes Defense Law By Colorado Sex Crimes Defense Lawyer – H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Social Services Records and Sex Crimes Defense Law – In a recent 2013 case handed down from the Colorado Court of Appeals – a Sexual Assault case was reversed because of a failure of the judge to permit the parties to access social service records pertaining to the prior alleged abuse of the victims in … Read The Rest

Introduction – Like shooting fish in a barrell – several Colorado counties have ramped up their efforts to investigate and prosecute those downloading child pornography.  With penalties from life in prison, to multiple years in the Department of Corrections, – with consequences such as lifetime registration as a sex offender and literally years of “treatment” for convicted sex offenders – this story is too important to ignore. I have prosecuted and defended dozens of these … Read The Rest

As a young prosecutor right out of law school in the early 1980’s – my mentor – a man named John Topolnicki – asked me who – in the criminal justice system has the most power? I answered – ” well – the judge of course.” Over the last 40 years I would learn over and over -it is the District Attorney – not the judge, the jury, or least of all, the defense lawyer, … Read The Rest