Helping Clients Get Their Lives Back

First degree child molestation

First degree child molestation charges reduced to gross misdemeanor non-sex offenses.

Attempted third degree child molestation

Attempted third degree child molestation charges reduced to gross misdemeanor non-sex offense.

Reduction

Client charged in sting operation, and was facing an indeterminate sentence which would have resulted in multiple years in prison if convicted.  Prepared detailed mitigation package for state, which agreed to reduce the charges to a non-indeterminate jail sentence of under 12 months.  Natalie Findley-Wolf, King County.

Reduction

New case law allows some defendants to be resentenced if they can show their youth was a mitigating factor in their offense. Our client was 17 and prosecuted as an adult back in 2011. He received a sentence of 24 years to life, with lifetime probation. With the help of a mitigation expert, and with thorough research and briefing, we successfully argued for a substantial reduction in the sentence. It is now 12 years and 36 months of probation. Jennifer Atwood, King County Superior Court

First degree child molestation to misdemeanor assault charges

Client was mother of child. Six months of expert consultation and investigation revealed that police had incorrectly reported that client failed a polygraph, daughter was improperly influenced by stepmother, and daughter had made accusation after attending a Girl Scout’s four-hour retreat on Stranger Danger. Client sentenced to 30 days of community service, not required to register as a sex offender.

Indecent liberties, multiple victims, to misdemeanor assault, no jail time, no sex offender registration

Represented health care professional charged with multiple sex offenses involving patients under his care. Investigation revealed that the accusers had significant impairments which impacted their credibility. Case reduced to misdemeanor assault, no jail time. (King County Superior Court)

First degree child molestation to misdemeanor assault, no jail time, no sex offender registration

Client accused of attempting to molest the seven-year-old daughter of a friend. Seven-year-old was put to bed during a party at her father’s friend’s house. Investigation revealed that client, who later entered that bedroom to sleep, had previously arranged to stay in that room that night and was unaware that the child was there, and that child was unable to state that defendant touched her sexually. Counseled client through successful psychosexual evaluation showing that client did not pose a risk of sexual harm to the community, which was presented to the prosecutor and used as the basis for the resolution. (Pierce County Superior Court)

Attempted second degree child molestation to misdemeanor non-sex offense, no sex offender registration

Client sentenced to two months’ work release and not required to register as a sex offender. Subpoenaed 184 pages of mental health records of teenage accuser diagnosing accuser as a paranoid schizophrenic who was experiencing extreme mental disturbances around the time that she accused defendant of molesting her, and retained juvenile psychiatrist as expert prepared to conduct a competency examination of the accuser. (Clark County Superior Court)

Child pornography charges to communicating with a minor immoral purposes, deferred sentence

Retained forensic computer expert who determined that client had inadvertently downloaded images of child pornography while downloading multiple adult pornography files. Expert concluded that client had deleted the images as he came across them, and many images were incorrectly labeled as adult images.

Second degree rape and voyeurism charges to misdemeanor voyeurism, no registration

Client accused of videotaping himself digitally penetrating his girlfriend while she was asleep. Researched and briefed complex Fourth Amendment search and seizure to prosecution, which agreed to reduce.  Client sentenced to no jail time.

Second degree rape to misdemeanor assault

Client accused of forcibly raping a woman at a party. Client was in an alcohol blackout state and had no memory of the event.  Extensive investigation revealed multiple inconsistencies in accuser’s account, leading to a substantial reduction of charges.

Resentencing of a now adult who was a juvenile at the time of his offenses but prosecuted in adult court

Sentence reduced from 25 years to 14 years with three years of supervision following release rather than lifetime supervision

Exceptional sentence downward, felony violation of a court order-domestic violence:

Defense provided with 50 CD-ROMs of jail phone call recordings in violation of a domestic violence protection order. Presented extensive mitigation package to state which convinced state to recommend exceptional sentence downward instead of seeking convictions to place client in prison for 60 months.

Juvenile First Degree Child Molestation Charges reduced to Assault in the Fourth Degree

Juvenile Rape in the Second Degree and Indecent Liberties Charges reduced to Assault in the Fourth Degree

Sentence of probation and no jail time for federal child pornography charges

Sentence of probation (no jail time) for individual charged with possessing over 1500 images and 300 videos of child pornography; client faced 78-97 months in federal prison under the United States Sentencing Guidelines range. (U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington