An internet charge puts your name on the line before you ever see a courtroom. Digital evidence can be challenged.
Solicitation stings, possession allegations, and online harassment cases are built almost entirely on digital evidence, and digital evidence is never as conclusive as the State presents it. We work with forensic experts to test it, and we have resolved these cases through pre-trial diversion, dismissal, and reductions that kept convictions off the record.
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The accusation does damage before the evidence is ever examined.
Internet charges carry a particular kind of exposure. The arrest is a public record. Your devices are seized. An allegation involving solicitation or explicit material can reach an employer, a licensing board, or a family long before any court looks at the proof. For the clients we represent, professionals, students, parents, the accusation itself is a sentence unless the case is handled fast and handled quietly.
The legal consequences have grown sharper. Texas now charges solicitation of prostitution as a felony, and offenses involving minors or explicit material can carry sex offender registration, the consequence that outlasts every other. A conviction in this category threatens professional licenses, immigration status, custody arrangements, and any career that involves a background check, which is most of them.
Here is the other side of it. These cases rest on chat logs, devices, and forensic conclusions, and every one of those can be examined. A file on a hard drive does not prove who put it there. A message does not prove who typed it. We have resolved solicitation cases through pre-trial diversion in Collin County and reductions in Tarrant and Dallas counties, outcomes that ended without a conviction on the original charge.
The State has a device. It still has to prove a person.
An internet case looks airtight until someone qualified examines how the evidence actually got there. That examination is where we start.
Who was at the keyboard
Shared computers, family devices, open networks, and saved logins all separate a device from its user. The State has to prove you took the action, not that your hardware did. We trace accounts, access, and opportunity, because the gap between a device and a person is reasonable doubt.
Independent forensic review
We work with forensic experts who examine metadata, timestamps, caches, and download paths. Files arrive on devices through automatic caching, malware, and shared storage without any deliberate act by the owner. The State’s forensic conclusion is an opinion, and we put a qualified expert against it.
The search of your devices
Device searches require warrants, and warrants have limits: what may be searched, for what, and for how long. Investigators who range beyond the warrant’s scope put their own evidence at risk. We litigate suppression when the search overreached, because an internet case rarely survives without its devices.
The sting, line by line
In a solicitation case the conversation is the case. We read every message for what was actually said, who proposed what, and how the officer steered the exchange. That work has produced pre-trial diversion in Collin County and reductions to misdemeanor and class C dispositions in Tarrant and Dallas counties.
Internet crimes results.
Outcomes from our case files: diversion, dismissal, and reductions that ended without a conviction on the original charge.
- Diversion Solicitation of prostitution, pre-trial diversion Collin County
- Reduced Solicitation of prostitution reduced to misdemeanor harassment, deferred adjudication Tarrant County
- Reduced Solicitation of prostitution reduced to class C disorderly conduct, deferred adjudication Dallas County
- Dismissed Child pornography
- Probation Child pornography, resolved with probation
Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Every case depends on its own facts.
Internet Crimes: the questions clients ask first.
Will everyone find out about this?
The police took my phone and computer. What happens now?
I was messaging an undercover officer. Is that entrapment?
Will I have to register as a sex offender?
The call is free. Waiting is not.
Evidence goes stale, witnesses move, and deadlines pass whether you have hired a lawyer or not. The earlier we start, the more we can do.
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