Miami Sex Offense Defense Attorney

Sex Offense Charges We Defend

Our sex offense practice covers assault, trafficking, and exploitation allegations, which in real life show up in very different situations. Some of what we handle starts as a claim of sexual battery or unwanted physical contact — often between two people who know each other, where the entire case turns on consent and credibility. Some involves accusations of lewd or lascivious conduct, or offenses tied to a person’s age, where the facts a client thinks are obvious turn out to be legally complicated. And some involve exploitation and trafficking claims, which increasingly rest on phones, messages, and digital records rather than any physical evidence at all.

Whatever category yours falls into, the pattern is the same: an accusation gets treated as proof long before anyone has examined it. We start earlier. We look at who is saying what, when they said it, and whether the story holds together once you line it up against the actual record.

When a Sex Case Goes Federal

Not every sex offense case stays in state court. When an allegation involves exploitation, trafficking, or digital evidence that crosses state lines, it can end up charged federally instead. That’s not a small distinction. A federal case means a different courthouse, different prosecutors, and rules and procedures that many local attorneys simply don’t work in day to day. We defend clients in federal court on cybercrime matters, and our sex offense work spans those exploitation and trafficking charges that federal prosecutors tend to pursue. If your case has already moved to that level — or you’re worried it might — you need someone who is comfortable standing up in that forum, not learning it on your case.

Defending Against a False Accusation

If you didn’t do this, the question that keeps you up at night is probably the hardest one: how do you prove something didn’t happen? You don’t have to. That’s not how any of this works. The burden belongs to the state. They have to prove their case, and our job is to hold them to that standard without letting anyone shortcut it because the charge sounds serious.

So we dig into the parts of the story people skip over. Does the timeline actually make sense? Do the accuser’s earlier statements match the later ones? Is there a reason — a fight, a breakup, a grudge — that explains why the accusation surfaced when it did? Credibility is not off-limits just because the subject is uncomfortable. When the account has holes, we find them and we put them in front of the people who decide the outcome.

The Sexual Violence Injunction Alongside Your Case

A lot of people are surprised to learn there are two cases running at once. Alongside the criminal charge, an accuser can file for a sexual violence injunction — a civil order that can restrict where you go, who you contact, and whether you can possess a firearm. We defend sexual violence injunctions as part of our practice, and here’s why it matters that the same firm handles both.

The injunction hearing usually comes up quickly, on a lower standard of proof than a criminal trial. It’s tempting to treat it as a separate headache and just get through it. That’s a mistake. Anything you say at that hearing, anything an attorney concedes to make it go away faster, can resurface in the criminal case. When one team is watching both proceedings, nothing gets said in the civil courtroom that quietly damages your defense on the criminal side. That coordination is one of the biggest reasons not to split these cases between two lawyers who never talk to each other.

If civil papers just landed on top of everything else, this is the moment to get a lawyer involved. Call us at (305) 315-5147 and we’ll walk through where things stand before the hearing catches you off guard.

Trial Attorneys Who’ve Defended the Gravest Charges

It’s fair to ask whether the people you’re about to trust have actually done this, or just written about it. Attorney Robert Erickson’s case experience includes defending clients against rape charges — the most serious category of sex offense there is. This isn’t a firm that handles minor matters and calls it sex crimes defense. We’ve stood in the room on the hardest cases.

What matters just as much is how we treat the person sitting across from us. We put our reputation on the line for every client we take, and that includes clients facing charges that make other people flinch. You will not get a lecture from us. You’ll get lawyers who take the accusation apart and defend the person accused of it, all the way through, whether your case is in North Miami, Aventura, Miami Shores, or anywhere across Miami-Dade.

What to Do Before You’re Charged

If you haven’t been arrested yet, you are in the window that matters most. Pre-charge investigations are where a lot of these cases are quietly won or lost — before a single formal charge is ever filed. What you do now can shape everything that follows.

A few things to hold onto: do not give a statement to any detective or investigator without a lawyer present, no matter how friendly the request sounds. Do not contact the accuser, their family, or anyone connected to them — not to explain, not to apologize, not for any reason. Save your messages, records, and anything that shows where you were and what actually happened. Then get counsel involved before you answer any questions. The “just tell us your side” conversation is not the harmless chat it’s presented as.