St. Louis Criminal Defense Legal Blog

On behalf of Rosenblum Schwartz & Fry posted in Sex Crimes on Thursday, March 29, 2018. It is unsurprising that legions of Americans all across the country put high credibility on what they regard as the near-magic qualities of forensics science. After all, the processes and findings in that realm have been repeatedly blessed in CSI and related television dramas and movies for decades. Lab technicians working purposefully in sterilized labs with next-generation equipment and technologies simply do not err. Or do they? High numbers of critics just as well educated and trained in the field as real lab specialists know that forensics-linked errors …

On behalf of Rosenblum Schwartz & Fry posted in Sex Crimes on Wednesday, January 31, 2018. Police dramas are unquestionably an enduring staple in the world of television and films, and most Americans have certainly seen an impressive number of offerings based on precinct life and activities over the years. Those are fictional, of course, and many of them take considerable license in portraying “reality” in the criminal justice realm. At the same time, though, attempts are routinely made to cast “day in the life” shows in an essentially accurate way, with inside advisers being on hand to better ensure that cameras track police …

On behalf of Rosenblum Schwartz & Fry posted in Sex Crimes on Friday, December 22, 2017. A Missouri doctor was charged on Dec. 18 of sexually assaulting two female patients at a pain clinic in St. Louis County. The 38-year-old doctor is facing two counts of second-degree sexual abuse and two counts of second-degree sodomy. One of the patients, a 60-year-old woman, visited the clinic on Oct. 17 for treatment of her chronic pain. During the exam, the doctor allegedly touched the woman’s breasts and genitals with his hands. A second woman, age 61, told authorities that she had an appointment at the clinic …

On behalf of Rosenblum Schwartz & Fry posted in Sex Crimes on Friday, October 13, 2017. If you have been arrested on suspicion of soliciting a minor online, it is understandable that you are scared. But make no mistake, you are innocent until the prosecution proves that you are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. With that, a number of facts must be proven in order to convict you of such a crime. This post will highlight a few of the questions that must be answered. Was it actually you who solicited the minor – Indeed, your IP address may indicate that it was your computer …

On behalf of Rosenblum Schwartz & Fry posted in Sex Crimes on Thursday, September 21, 2017. Current U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos recently offered up comments on the issue of campus-based handling of sex-crimes cases at colleges and universities across the country. Her tone was emphatic, with the words she delivered being blunt and manifestly clear. “Survivors [of campus assaults] aren’t well served when they are re-traumatized with appeal after appeal because the failed system failed the accused,” she told an audience near the White House. The “failed system” charge has been a recurring mantra for ranking officials in the Trump administration, and a …

On behalf of Rosenblum Schwartz & Fry posted in Sex Crimes on Friday, July 21, 2017. While a great deal of media attention has been dedicated to O.J. Simpson’s parole hearing, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert has quietly left federal prison. Hastert, known as the longest serving Republican speaker was released on Monday and moved to a halfway house in Chicago where he will serve the remainder of his 15 month sentence for bank fraud. The fraud conviction stems from a 2015 guilty plea following revelations that he withdrew $925,000 from four separate accounts in more than 100 separate transactions in order to avoid …

On behalf of Rosenblum Schwartz & Fry posted in Sex Crimes on Wednesday, April 26, 2017. We are both succinct and upfront on a relevant page of our website referring to Missouri sex-focused offenses at the St. Louis criminal defense firm of Rosenblum Fry, noting that, “The stigma and criminal penalties associated with a sex crime conviction are significant.” And that can often seem to be true in a comparatively outsized way for juveniles and other young offenders, who sometimes appear to have been clearly in the dark regarding the downside consequences of their conduct in a specific instance. Moreover (and especially as regards unlawful …

On behalf of Rosenblum Schwartz & Fry posted in Sex Crimes on Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Recent news accounts chronicle the potential for users’ privacy on the Internet to be materially eroded, if not outright eviscerated. Online privacy has emerged as a major public concern in recent years, as leaps-and-bounds surges in technology-fueled monitoring tools have put consumers front and center as exceedingly vulnerable targets of law enforcers’ surveillance efforts. The direct attempt by police agencies and other state/federal investigatory entities to directly peer in on Internet users as they interact with various platforms online — some critics openly use the word “spy” — …

On behalf of Rosenblum Schwartz & Fry posted in Sex Crimes on Thursday, February 9, 2017. Although facing a criminal charge of any type is of course a significant and, indeed, harrowing development in any individual’s life, it is certainly no overstatement to note that being arrested and charged with a sex crime-related offense can have especially dire repercussions. For starters, and as we note on our website at the well-established criminal defense law firm of Rosenblum Fry P.C. in St. Louis, “The stigma and criminal penalties associated with a sex crime conviction are significant.” Any individual in St. Louis or elsewhere in Missouri who …