Massachusetts Criminal Lawyer BlogOn February 15, 2012 JB plead guilty in Middlesex Superior Court to possessing and distributing child pornography and was placed on Probation for four years. (See the blog entry describing JB’s case in our blog dated March 5, 2012.) JB then filed the required notice with the sex offender registry board (SORB). The Board then sent JB a notice that he was going to be classified and gave him an opportunity to submit materials relative to the classification. JB again retained Lewin & Lewin to represent him at the SORB. Attorney Robert Lewin prepared the response to the Board. A lengthy pre-hearing memorandum was prepared by Attorney Lewin and many favorable documents were attached to the memorandum and the entire package was submitted to the SORB on March 26, 2012. On April 19, 2012 (just 24 days after submission by the defense) the Board sent out a Notice that it was classifying JB as a Level 1 sex offender. As a Level 1 sex offender JB can register yearly by mail and information about him is NOT available to the public. Attorney Robert Lewin has presented many cases to the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board and has achieved outstanding results for clients at the Board.
Articles Posted in Computer/Internet Sex Crimes
Online Child Enticement Case To Be Dismissed
AF, an 18 year old male from New York, had an online relationship with a 14 year old female from Massachusetts. The relationship included an exchange of pictures and an exchange of videos. The videos were very explicit. AF arranged to come to Massachusetts and meet with the female. They met and were seated in AF’s car when the police came. An investigation followed. The police in NY were contacted and AF’s computer was seized in NY. A forensic examination of AF’s computer and the female’s computer revealed the many explicit emails that AF and the female had exchanged as well as the videos. What this case was really all about was a love relationship between AF and the female. Attorney Lewin was able to convince the District Attorney that AF was not a “child predator”, that AF and the female had a genuine non-sexual relationship with one another (notwithstanding the pictures and the videos), and that AF was not the type of person the child enticement statute was designed to protect against. On July 26, 2010 with the agreement of the District Attorney the Judge in Framingham District Court continued AF’s case generally for six months. The case will be dismissed on January 11, 2011. There was no guilty plea; there was no “admission to sufficient facts”; this was NOT a plea bargain. There was absolutely no admission of any wrongdoing by AF. A successful result was reached, in part, because Attorney Lewin furnished to the District Attorney a number of the emails between AF and the female that showed that this really was a love relationship between AF and the female. It was important to avoid a conviction because a conviction would have required 20 years of sex offender registration as well as an electronic monitoring bracelet during any term of probation. All of that was avoided.