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 Defense Lawyer Colorado Criminal Sex Crimes Law – Denial While On Probation And Implications For Sex Offender Probation Violations And Re-Sentencing – Recently (2016) a man in Colorado Springs was sentenced to 10 years to life on Colorado Sex Offender Intensive Supervision Probation (SOISP). While the plea agreement kept him out of prison after pleading guilty to molesting a child, he refused to admit much of what the … Read The Rest

by H. Michael Steinberg – Colorado Sex Crimes Criminal Defense Lawyer. Quietly – the Colorado state legislature – unhappy with the fact that Colorado judge’s may have some discretion setting the bottom – or minimum sentence in Lifetime Indeterminate Sentencing Cases – passed HB – 14-1260. Entitled: – HB 14-1260: Adjusting Presumptive Ranges for Sexual Intrusion Crimes Against Children 12 and Under When Perpetrator is At Least 10 Years Older – The new law mandates … Read The Rest

By H. Michael Steinberg Denver Colorado Sex Crimes Criminal Defense Lawyer Email the Author at [email protected] Colorado Sex Offender Treatment System SOMB Comes Under Fire In 2014 – This year – 2014 – the Colorado state legislature commissioned a study by Dr. Deirdre D’Orazio, Dr. Anthony Beech and Dr. David Thornton (Central Coast Clinical and Forensic Psychology Services) to scrutinize the Colorado SOMB Sex Offender Management Board standards that have so unfairly impacted so many lives … 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

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