Category: Child Pornography
Department of Justice Criticized for Dark Web Child Porn Site Do law enforcement agencies ever go too far in their efforts to catch criminals? That’s the question being asked in a case involving the Department of Justice and its decision to operate a child pornography site on the dark web. Recently, a federal judge stated…
By: Clint Broden Dallas Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer While criminal cases in federal court are not often dismissed (unlike state court where dismissals happen more frequently), dismissals do happen. That is why it is important that, if you are charged with an offense in federal court, you hire an attorney with significant experience representing criminal…
Simply being accused of a sex-related offense is enough to derail their life. Sex offender registration laws vary from state to state, but they are almost uniformly tough and restrictive. In many cases, these laws dictate where an individual can live and work. Recently, one state attempted to stop registered sex offenders from using Facebook….
A man from Fort Worth in Texas has been sentenced to 30-years in a federal prison after he moved to Mexico, married a woman and molested her daughter. The Dallas Morning News reported on how Ronald Douglass Sweatt admitted to one charge of producing child pornography in May. The report said he returned to Texas…
Child pornography charges are taken very seriously and dealt with by the federal authorities. We wrote about the difficulty of defending child pornography cases here. Recently, the Dallas Morning News reported on how a 38-year-old man from Little Elm was sentenced to federal prison on child pornography violations, according to a press release from the…
A recent sentencing in Texas demonstrates the stiff penalties that can face those accused of distributing child pornography online. The Dallas Morning News reported on how a sex offender from Arlington was sentenced to 40 years in prison on November 15, 2013, after he admitted sharing child pornography online. Recently we noted how the FBI…
Those who seek sex with children may be prosecuted at a federal level in the future if a bill introduced in Congress last week becomes law. In the wake of an FBI operation that rescued over 100 children from sex trafficking, Texas Rep. Ted Poe formally announced new legislation to help end what he termed…
The recent arrest of a former coach at a prestigious Texas high school on child pornography charges, highlights the complex nature of these kinds of investigations. Gordon Oehmig, a former wrestling “Coach of the year” at St. Thomas, an all-boys Catholic school in Houston, was accused of having more than 1,500 images and 900 videos,…
We have written often about the importance of hiring an experienced attorney to represent you in the event you are charged with a child pornography offense in federal court. The penalties are simply much too severe to risk retaining an attorney who has not had significant experience in handling these types of cases. A recent…
We have previously blogged on Defending Child Pornography Offenses in Federal Court. As we explained, federal prosecutors are prosecuting child pornography offenses at an astounding rate both here in the Northern District of Texas and throughout the country. We also discussed the dramatic changes over the years in the federal sentencing guidelines for child pornography….