Posts Tagged ‘second-degree sexual assault’
Can Evidence Contained on a Cell Phone Be Used to Convict of Sex Crimes?
State in the Interest of G.C. Appellate Docket No.: A-1615-18T1 Decided September 2, 2020 Submitted by New Jersey Sex Crime Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In a recent unpublished decision, the Appellate Division reviewed whether evidence contained on defendant’s cell phone used to convict him of sex crimes was properly admitted when defendant was not present at…
Read MoreCan Scientific Evidence of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS) Overturn Convictions Retroactively
State v. G.E.P. Appellate Docket No.: A-4-19 Decided August 5, 2020 Submitted by New Jersey Sex Crime Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In a recent New Jersey Supreme Court decision, the Court reviewed whether scientific evidence of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS) presented for the conviction of those accused of sex crimes against children which was…
Read MoreCan the State obtain a victim’s cell phone records and texts and then only turn over part of the final report to a defendant in discovery?
Issue: In this case the state seemed a victims cell phone and conducted a forensic download of all the victim’s texts from the night before a sexual assault. The state obtained a full list of all texts on the phone from September 10, 2015, to September 28, 2015, along with a log of O.R.’s calls from September 15,…
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