Child Pornography

Child Pornography (PC 311.11): Child Pornography is a criminal defense that is defined as any visual depiction involving the use of a minor, or one appearing to be a minor, engaging in a sexually explicit conduct. Visual depictions include video, pictures, drawings, animations, film, photographs or computer-generated images or pictures. Child Pornography has become problematic Read More …

Lewd Acts with a Child/Child Molestation

Lewd Acts with a Child/Child Molestation (PC 288): Child Molestation is a serious charge that carries serious legal and social consequences. An accusation of this nature can ruin an innocent person’s life. While there are many types of child molestation, almost any conviction will result in having to register as a sex offender for life. Read More …

Lewd Conduct

Engaging in or Soliciting Lewd Conduct in Public (PC 647 (a)): Under Penal Code 647 (a), it is illegal to engage in lewd or dissolute conduct in any place, or to solicit someone else to do so. Lewd conduct is defined as touching your private parts (or another person’s private parts) with the intention of Read More …

Failure to Register as a Sex Offender

Failure to Register as a Sex Offender (PC 290 (b)): If you are required to register under California’s sex offender registration law, and you fail to do so, you may be convicted under CAPC 290, “Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.” California’s Sex Offender Registration Act (Also known as Megan’s Law), requires anyone who Read More …

Indecent Exposure

Indecent Exposure (PC 314): California Penal Code 314 PC makes it unlawful to willfully expose your genitals to someone else with the intent by a desire to sexually gratify yourself or offend the other person. While the law is broad and vague, the statute has remained unchanged since its enactment centuries ago. Penalties (PC 314): Read More …

Prostitution & Solicitation

Prostitution & Solicitation (PC 647 (b)): California prostitution law under Penal Code 647 (b) PC prohibits: engaging in the act of prostitution, and offering (also known as “solicitation) or agreeing to engage in the act of prostitution. Under this statute, police officers are allowed to arrest the prostitute, the customer, and the middleman (otherwise referred Read More …

Rape/Statutory Rape

Rape (PC 261): California’s rape statute defines the crime of “rape” as nonconsensual sexual intercourse through the use of threats, force, or fraud. The sexual intercourse needs to be either against that person’s will, or without that person’s consent (such as, having sex with a female who is passed out drunk). For the act to Read More …

Sexual Battery

Penal Code 243.4 defines “sexual battery” as the illegal act of touching an intimate body part of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, arousal or abuse. Depending on the circumstances, sexual battery can be treated as a misdemeanor or a felony. It may be charged as a felony if the victim was unlawfully Read More …