Sex Crimes

Of all the defenses in a sex crimes prosecution, such as lack of evidence and entrapment, consent may be the most potent and most dangerous one. Consent is a potent defense because, if established, it completely unravels most sex crimes cases. If a McLeod County jury...

There are many crimes you can be charged for, but pandering is one that is frowned upon in society. While it’s not prostitution, it’s part of the process and seen negatively. In Minnesota, pandering is a sex crime. It means hiring or agreeing to hire someone for the...

Juror sympathy is often an effective defense in criminal cases. If jurors sympathize with defendants, they often look for ways to acquit them. But appeals to sympathy almost always fall on deaf ears in sex crime cases. Furthermore, alternative approaches, like...

In August 2019, Hennepin County officials charged singer Robert S. Kelly with two counts of soliciting a child prostitute in connection with a 2001 incident in Minneapolis. According to court documents, the alleged victim was 17 when she asked R. Kelly for his...

Minnesota law includes a wide array of sexual offenses. Many of them require some sort of physical contact. But in other cases, the defendant and alleged victim do not have to be in the same room or even on the same continent. Since there are so many types of sex...