The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that cell phone users have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their “cell-site…
October 12, 2015 Consent Element Must Now be Proven in Child Sexual Battery CasesSexual battery is defined as intentional physical contact with the “intimate parts” of another person without consent. Intimate parts generally…
October 5, 2015 Supreme Court Tosses Search Warrant in Child Pornography CaseFBI agents received information from German authorities that a certain IP address had been used to access a child pornography…
October 1, 2015 Court Reverses Sexual Battery Conviction on Erroneous Jury ChargeThe defendant was indicted for the offense of aggravated sexual battery. The indictment charged him with inserting his finger into…
September 22, 2015 Molestation Conviction Reversed Due to Admission of Unlawful RecordingThe defendant was convicted of child molestation and aggravated child molestation following allegations made by his 15 year-old stepdaughter. During…
September 19, 2015 Court Finds Child Pornography Indictment to be Legally SufficientMoreover, the Court held that the indictment was not required to identify the names of the particular child pornography files…
August 20, 2015 Court Holds Evidence of Defendant’s Propensity is now AdmissibleThe defendant was charged with child molestation following an incident with an 11 year-old relative with whom he lived temporarily….
August 13, 2015 Court Finds Indictment Sufficient in Internet Sex Sting CaseThe Court further found that a conviction for violating the Act was not void despite the fact that the jury…
August 5, 2015 Court Reiterates Definition of ‘Solicit’ in Child Exploitation CaseUsing a website called Motherless.com, the defendant contacted a person he believed to be a 39 year-old single mother who…
August 3, 2015 GA Supreme Court Affirms Contempt Order for Deactiviation of Facebook PageThe defendant’s late husband, Keith Davis, was a plastic surgeon who founded a vein care practice (VCP) with fellow physician,…
July 20, 2015 Despite New DNA Evidence Court Denies New Trial in Sex Assault CaseBharadia was convicted of burglary, aggravated sodomy and aggravated sexual battery in 2003. He was charged along with a co-defendant…
June 23, 2015 Court Holds that Passenger Cannot Challenge GPS Tracking DeviceThe police were investigating a series of burglaries and, as a result, they obtained a court order that authorized them…
