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SAN DIEGO SEX CRIMES DEFENSE ATTORNEY

Prostitution, Molestation, Rape & Sexual Assault Lawyer

If you have been accused and/or arrested for committing a sex crime, such as lewd & lascivious conduct, child molestation, pedophilia or child ponography, prostitution, solicitation, rape, date rape, indecent exposure or sodomy, you need an aggressive and experienced California sex crime defense attorney.

Sex crime lawyer George H. Ramos, Jr., the founding attorney of the San Diego Criminal Defense Center, is a former prosecutor who has firsthand knowledge and experience exploiting and weakening the prosecution's allegations against you. Contact sex crime defense lawyer George H. Ramos, Jr. today for experienced and aggressive legal defense.

The San Diego Criminal Defense Center

At The San Diego Criminal Defense Law Center, we proactively defend our clients against sex related charges. When retained in the early stages of an investigation or sex offense case, we begin negotiating with the prosecution even before they’ve charged our client with a specific sex crime. Because of our aggressive approach, we have had sex charges altered, reduced, and dismissed entirely for our clients.

Southern California Sex Violation Defense

In California, sexual behavior is considered criminal if it falls under one of the following offenses:

Child Molestation Allegations & Charges

A conviction of child molestation carries the probability of severe punishment, including lengthy imprisonment and sex offender registration. Unfortunately, defendants facing child molestation charges risk the greatest propensity for false allegations, confusion, miscommunication, and misguided interference.

Younger children sometimes confuse reality with suggestions and implications made by suspicious and concerned adults, including social workers and law enforcement personnel. Often, they will answer questions affirmatively because they feel they are "supposed to", and want to do what is expected of them.

What will typically happened is the child will undergo traumatizing physical and medical examinations by physicians and medical personnel from San Diego's Sexual Abuse Response Team, or SART. Once the child has been subjected to extensive biological tests, more suggestive questioning will follow, which sometimes tends to "program" or "convince" the child that inappropriate behavior has actually occurred.

Once the SART ordeal has wound down, the San Diego Child Protective Services (CPS) Team will conduct play room sessions with the child using dolls and toys to demonstrate what they suspect, further making the alleged incident seem "real" to the child.

If you are subject or a criminal child molestation investigation, you must call us as soon as possible at 619.312-1830 and we begin working against pending charges before they are filed, for best results.

If you have already been arrested and are facing the enormous bail amounts that are usually associated with these charges, we can often help with your release from jail. The San Diego Criminal Defense Center offers expert and knowledgeable attorney representation on your behalf. Time is of essence, don't delay.

Rape & Sexual Assault Charges

If you are suspected of a rape or sexual assault charge, or have been arrested, it is crucial that you consult with a proven and skilled defense attorney who has successful experienced defending rape and sex crime cases. A rape charge is considered a violent felony crime and a conviction will result in a lengthy prison sentence. Let our attorneys help with this serious possibility.

In California, rape is defined as forced sexual intercourse with a person against their will, and also includes intercourse that is nonconsensual. Intercourse is considered nonconsensual if the other party is uncounscious, intentionally drugged (as in "date rape"), or by coercion or intimidation including threatening the other person into submission.

Most rape charges can be successfully defended, and many times dismissed altogether, by an experienced and aggressive attorney knowledgeable in this area of criminal law. Call our law offices 24 hours per day at 619.231.1830 and we will provide you with a free rape defense consultation.

Consequences of California Sex Offense Charges

In some instances in California, a sex crime conviction counts as a strike on your criminal record, if it is serious enough to be labeled a "1 strike" case, you could be penalized with 25 years to a life of prison time on the first conviction. Each strike a person accumulates adds additional time to their sentence. A third strike automatically puts the defendant at risk of a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.

If you are convicted of Sexual Assault or a sex related crime in San Diego County, you face jail, child custody and visitation loss, loss of rights to vote and own guns or firearms, be subjected to mandatory AIDS testing, financial penalties, counseling, probation, parole, and lifetime sex offender registration and tracking.

If you have questions regarding sex crimes,  contact an experienced rape allegation defense attorney at George H. Ramos, Jr. & Associates  today for a free consultation. We are available to take appointments days, evenings, and weekends. We accept all major credit cards.

National Sex Offender Registration: Megan's Law

If convicted of a sex crime in California, under Megan's Law you will be required to list your name & address on a nationwide sex offender registry, and notify local law enforcement each time you change your place of residence. Being labeled as a "sex offender" makes life is a hardship for most people, and may adversely affect employment opportunities and living arrangements. In the recent news we have seen how horribly many sex offenders are treated by their communities and many times they are forced to leave their homes because of the actions of their neighbors.

The California criminal defense law firm of George H. Ramos, Jr. & Associates, is located in San Diego and serves clients throughout Southern California including Los Angeles County, Orange County, Riverside County, and all neighboring San Diego County communities.