Are You Facing Lewd Conduct / Solicitation of a Prostitute Sex Crimes?

Newsflash from your Hollywood Attorney:

This Lewd Conduct Lawyer Los Angeles Will Help You!

In recent years, police entrapment actions in the Los Angeles area have lured many people into compromising situations, leading to arrest on lewd conduct charges and solicitation of a prostitute. These criminal charges carry penalties which can potentially include jail time, a hefty fine, community service, and an order to stay away from the location where the arrest occurred. In addition, the suspect can suffer from feelings of embarrassment and fear that the arrest will become known to family, neighbors, and co-workers. If your employer has a zero-tolerance policy regarding felony convictions or criminal convictions in general, you could lose your job. If you are an immigrant, a conviction for lewd conduct or soliciting a prostitute may be a deportable offense, even if you plead guilty to a lesser charge.

At the Law Offices of Jonathan Franklin, we take lewd conduct cases very seriously. Experienced attorney Jonathan Franklin has handled numerous lewd conduct cases throughout the course of his criminal defense career. He is fluent in the language of the California laws that govern sex crimes and can help you understand your rights.

Contact us at 310.273.9600 to schedule your free consultation to learn more about your options for seeking a resolution to the lewd conduct charges you may be facing.

Facing Charges of Lewd Conduct and Solicitation of a Prostitute

The Lewd Conduct Lawyer Los Angeles at the law office of Jonathan Franklin represents people charged with lewd conduct or the solicitation of a prostitute involving the following:

Exposing one’s self in public
Lewd acts in public spaces and public bathrooms
Soliciting a prostitute in public or online
Offering sexual services on Craig’s List or on other websites
Engaging in sexual behavior in a bar, restaurant, park, or bathroom
Challenging the Prosecution’s Lewd Conduct Allegations

Depending on the circumstances of your case, however, it may be possible to obtain a dismissal of the charge or a reduced charge-one that does not carry the same penalties or social stigma as does a lewd conduct or indecent exposure charge. In cases involving allegations of prostitution and sting operations, undercover agents often use sub-standard recording equipment that results in poor, indistinct recordings. Here, it may be next to impossible to determine what was actually said. Without hard evidence that an offer of money was made in exchange for sexual favors, the prosecution may be forced to either dismiss or reduce the charges against you.

These cases have unique characteristics, and there are specific provisions of California law which apply. For this reason, it is essential that you obtain representation by a defense lawyer experienced in such cases. Do not hesitate to get in touch with our firm.

Contact Beverly Hills, California Sex Crimes Attorney Jonathan Franklin

The Law Offices of Jonathan Franklin is a criminal defense law firm that represents clients accused of lewd conduct charges. We have significant experience defending clients caught up in lewd conduct sting operations, and we will aggressively represent you.

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Prostitute Rehab Instead of Jail, Houston is Trying it Out

Tricia Chambers began her life heavily dependent on heroin and methadone. From there, she was peddled into child pornography, and by 9 she had a full-fledged career in prostitution, alongside her mother.

Now 42, Chambers is getting what she believes to be her first real chance — in a downtown Houston cellblock.

There, in stark contrast to Chambers and the other orange-clad inmates, is Kathryn Griffin Grinan — a former prostitute who now dons a business suit and heels as she transforms her nonprofit, We've Been There Done That, into a taxpayer-funded program that is teaming up with law enforcement and the court system to reform these women.

"You can be healed from this. You just got to be ready and want to," Griffin said, recalling how she went from being a college student to the lowest of street walkers. "We just prostitutes ... nobody cares about us. Well, because I was there and I felt that same way and I broke it, I knew that I could share it and break it in others."

The program has been so successful that Texas this session passed into law a bill that requires other large cities to create their own.

Adopted at birth, Griffin had a 28-year-old boyfriend at age 14. Two years later, she found herself among the youngest in a Houston college, racing to keep up with the drugs, alcohol and sex. In 1983, she joined funk singer Rick James' drug-infused "Cold Blooded" tour, developing a $30,000-a-month cocaine habit.

When the tour ended and the drugs disappeared, Griffin turned to prostitution — from call girl to mistress and finally to doped-up street hooker — to pay for the habit. After entering and failing nearly two dozen drug rehab programs, Griffin got clean 10 years ago through Houston's drug court. From that she learned what worked, and understood what didn't, and she tailor made a curriculum for prostitutes.

"There are those who have secrets," Griffin explained. "They just hold on to it, and it keeps making them sicker and sicker and sicker and sicker, and I go in and I'm like the Colonix. I go in and go deep and clean it out."

Houston, Dallas and several other Texas cities began changing how they treated prostitutes after the state Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that girls 14 and under could not be prosecuted for prostitution. The ruling has been a game changer, for juveniles and adults.

Dallas and Houston are among the cities nationwide that have set up special courts to deal with child prostitutes by putting them in recovery programs. Many, they found, had been victims of sexual or physical abuse. Some were born to mothers who were drug addicts and prostitutes themselves. Others were sold to a pimp, sometimes in exchange for a box of cigarettes.

In Houston, the court, called GIRLS or Growing Independence and Restoring Lives, was loosely modeled after other specialty courts, such as the drug court that has successfully reformed 80 percent of the nearly 400 people who have graduated since it started in 2003, including Griffin.

In September, Harris County law enforcement focused on adults, teaming with Griffin. Judges began in January sentencing women with numerous misdemeanor prostitution convictions to her program.

Working with a $40,000 a year budget, more than 30 women have been sentenced to the program, and only one or two have relapsed so far, though it is too early to measure success. The program is unique not only because it is court-ordered — unlike other private projects — but also treats the women after their release, sometimes for up to two years.

District Court Judge Maria T. Jackson has sentenced 20 women to the program, working closely with Griffin to monitor their treatment.

"Society has not been addressing the problems of the prostitutes and the women who come in for possession of controlled substance and theft.

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