By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Sex Crimes Criminal Defense Lawyer – Attorney Colorado Criminal Law – Searching Cell Phones – Limits On Search Warrants – In Colorado sex crime case investigations it is common for the police to seize a cell phone and attempt to search that cell phone with a search warrant. This article examines the use of a cell phone search warrant as that procedure was reviewed in a recent decision by the Colorado … Read The Rest

By H. Michael Steinberg – Colorado Sex Crimes Criminal Defense Lawyer Fifth Amendment Right NOT To Take Sexual History Polygraph – Colorado Criminal Sex Crimes Law – In Colorado and around the country – if you are on SOISP – Sex Offender Intensive Supervision Probation – it has been a requirement of the therapy that you take – and pass – a polygraph known as a Sexual History Polygraph. The refusal to take this polygraph … Read The Rest

by H. Michael Steinberg – Colorado Sex Crimes Criminal Defense Lawyer – Email The Author: [email protected] Colorado Sex Offender SOMB Standards Finally Reject No Known Cure Approach Colorado Sex Offender SOMB Standards Finally Reject No Known Cure Approach –  In May 2013 there was finally action taken by the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board to remove the “No Known Cure” language used by the SOMB in their Standards and Guidelines. As I wrote many years … Read The Rest

False Allegations In Colorado Springs Sex Assault Case – Case Dismissed By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Sex Crimes Criminal Defense Lawyer – Attorney False Allegations In Colorado Springs Sex Assault Case False allegations and charges of sexual assault are more common than in Colorado than one might think. This fact was proven once again in El Paso County District Court – Colorado Springs, Colorado, The El Paso County District Attorney was required to dismiss sexual … Read The Rest

Colorado False Allegation Sexual Assault Cases By H. Michael Steinberg – Colorado Sex Crimes Criminal Defense Lawyer – Attorney The Next New Thing In False Allegation Sexual Assault Cases will be experts testifying on the government payroll that the reason the alleged victim of a sexual assault “appears” to be lying is the result of her brain malfunctioning after the alleged crime occurs. False Allegations Or Lack Of Cooperation Explained Coming soon to a sexual … 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

Colorado Internet Luring Conviction – 18-3-306 by Colorado Internet Sex Crimes Criminal Defense Lawyer – H. Michael Steinberg The Crime of Colorado Internet Luring under 18-3-306 requires an mandatory indeterminate life sentence and is considered by many Colorado criminal defense lawyers – whose clients are the victims of out of control police and sheriff’s departments in Colorado managing wide ranging and well funded “sting” operations intent on targeting what may be individuals who are swept … Read The Rest

Colorado Sex Offender Intensive Supervision Probation – SOISP Colorado Sex Offender Intensive Supervision Probation – SOISP By Colorado Sex Crimes Criminal Defense Lawyer – H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Sex Offender Intensive Supervision Probation was addressed in a 2013 Colorado Court of Appeals decision which ruled that a mandatory intensive Supervision Probation sentence under the Colorado Sex Offender Lifetime Supervision Act (Act) – CANNOT be converted by the judge – in a Rule 35 b Motion for Reconsideration … Read The Rest

by Colorado Sex Offender Failure To Register Defense Lawyer – H. Michael Steinberg In a recent Colorado case – People v Lorenzo Brooks – the defendant’s conviction for failure to register as a sex offender was overturned because his out of state Texas conviction had no Colorado sex crime equivalent Colorado Failure To Register Laws The Colorado court of appeals concluded that Brooks was not required to register as a sex offender in Colorado and should not … Read The Rest

Colorado Sexual Exploitation – Child Pornography Lawyer Federal money has made its way into the coffers of Colorado district attorney’s offices to locate and prosecute even the most naive of Internet pornography participants. No one questions the need to protect children exploited all over the world in ways that make all of us angry to the point of aggression – but in the sweep of massive “sting” operations such as Douglas County’s most recent press … Read The Rest

Charges for Sex crimes, sexual offenses, and sexual abuse continue to be a large problem at Colorado colleges and universities. The Colorado Crush For Investigation of Sex Crimes on College Grounds Colorado Colleges and Universities have been under increasing scrutiny from the Department of Education and the Justice Department. Last year, 2011, the Department issued new guidellines to provide guidance to colleges and universities in responding to sex crimes on campuses. The Department has emphasized that … Read The Rest

One of the most difficult aspects of Colorado Sex Offender Probation is making it all of the way through therapy.  If a Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer successfully negotiates a deferred judgement and sentence, (which ends in a dismissal of the case if there is a successful completion of the requirements of the deferred judgement), the completion of the regimen of sex offender treatment requires enough time. Colorado Sex Offender Probation Rules For Colorado Felony Sex … 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