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Alameda and Contra Costa County, California
Sex Crimes Defense Attorneys
Statutory Rape Defense
Experienced, Aggressive Defense
When Your Freedom Is at Stake
Allegations of sexual offenses can be devastating unless dealt with in a discreet, sensitive, professional manner.
The sex crimes lawyers at the Law Offices of Robert J. Beles can protect you. We vigorously represent people accused of all types of sexual misconduct, including child molestation, sexual battery, improper touching, sexual harassment, “date rape,” prostitution, pornography, Internet child porn sites, as well as rape, indecent exposure, and sexual addiction. Let a specialist and our team of experienced investigators and experts help you. To schedule a confidential consultation with one of our sex crime attorneys, contact the Law Offices of Robert Beles.
Registration as Sex Offender
Lifetime registration as a sex offender can ruin a person’s life. Under California Penal Code 290 an individual convicted of most sex crimes is required to register with the local police on their birthday every year for the rest of their life and every time they move to a new city.
With most crimes, even murder, if you do your time, get paroled, and complete parole, you are not punished for the rest of your life. This is not true with sex offenders. You can be paying for the rest of your life for even a sexual battery.
Call my law offices. We can help you avoid this terrible consequence of registration.
Statute of Limitations
Often child molestation charges come out of the distant past. Somebody is having trouble in life and out of the blue allegedly remembers that they were molested 15-20 years ago. The Statute of Limitations has changed to allow very old sex abuse charges to be resurrected if certain conditions are met. Call us immediately if some charge of sexual misconduct surfaces. Don’t take it lightly because they say it happened 15 years ago. Call us immediately.
Pretext Calls
If you get a call from someone out of the past that wants you to apologize for what you supposedly did years ago, call us. Don’t apologize or talk to the caller. You could be being set up by someone calling from the police station trying to get you to say something that the police could use to support an old charge.
Many people faced with such a call give general apologies even though they don’t know what the person is talking about. Call us. We’ll help.
Child Molestation
Molestation cases begin with police officers contacting you and asking for your side of the story. Whatever you do, don’t talk to them. Call us immediately. The police are not your friends. They are not just trying to get the facts. They are trying to convict you. Don’t ruin your life. Call us.
If you are a parent and the police want to talk to your son about some girl’s allegations of sexual misconduct at school, don’t let them talk to your child without an attorney. Contact us now for effective sexual battery or statutory rape defense.
Sex assault police are very skilled at encouraging people to talk. Be polite. Say you’d like to talk to an attorney. Then run, don’t walk, to the nearest phone and call us.
If people would follow this simple advice, they could avoid much grief.
Rape - Date Rape
Increasingly common are allegations of rape after what has been a consensual sexual relationship. Don’t let your son be punished because a vindictive ex-girlfriend claims rape. We have extensive experience in defending this frequently charged crime. We have represented professional athletes and members of other professions such as doctors and lawyers accused of this ever popular false charge. Often Robert Beles and his daughter Anne team up to defend these high profile cases.
Prostitution and Solicitation
Whether you’re a woman charged with prostitution by undercover cops or a “john” set up by policewomen pretending to be prostitutes, we can help. Years of experience guide us in presenting your defense. Frequently the police go too far. Motions to dismiss based on entrapment or outrageous government conduct are our stock in trade. We have that special experience.
Therapy
Don’t make admissions to therapists before consulting an attorney. Call us. We will explain to you that the therapist may be required to notify the police. Many well meaning people are told by well meaning family members to just go to therapy only to find the police knocking on their door. Call us first. Avoid grief, avoid jail, avoid registration, avoid disgrace.
Internet Posting of Photos, Names, and Addresses
Recent laws will put your photo, address, and crime on the Internet for all to see. Under the guise of protecting the public, zealous lawmakers have made sex offenders the subjects of modern day witch hunts. The posting has no logic to it. Pedophiliac sexual predators are lumped together with one-time teen molesters. The public doesn’t know and the lawmakers don’t care. It’s good politics to throw stones at all sexual offenders. Call my law offices. We fight these witch hunts with all legal ways at our disposal. Don’t wait for some nut to throw a brick through your window. We’ll help protect you and your family.
Pornography
One minute you can be surfing the net and the next you can be allegedly committing a crime in the privacy of your own home. Visit the wrong site and the police will be breaking down your door, seizing your computer, and searching the hard drive for all of the sites you have ever visited, looking for suspected “child pornography.”
Call us to prevent this disaster. We are frequently able to prevent prosecution altogether when clients bring investigations to our attention in time. If necessary, we hire computer experts to analyze the strength of a case and plan effective defense strategies accordingly.
Web Sites
We have extensive experience representing people using the web to make a living. Frequently, legitimate message parlors or escort services are targeted by law enforcement. We’ve helped many companies and individuals set up a legitimate web site that does not violate the law.
Web businesses can also be targeted for tax evasion, including sales taxes allegedly owed for interstate sales over the Internet. We have experience in this area and can help.
If your company uses the web and wants to avoid the devastating results of a criminal investigation, call us. We have the experience to help.
To schedule a consultation now with an experienced Alameda County and Contra Costa County sexual crimes defense lawyer, contact the Law Offices of Robert Beles.
