Sex Crimes & Related Offenses

For twenty years, Fred Sosinsky has represented individuals accused of committing sexual offenses in New York State and Federal courts with a remarkable rate of success. Without a doubt, due to the nature of the allegations, the potential punishment involved, and the damage to one’s reputation caused by the announcement of such charges, sex crime prosecutions prove among the most difficult and challenging to defend against. But based on his extraordinary knowledge of the law and experience in aggressively exploring and then litigating every issue presented by these cases, Mr. Sosinsky has time and again achieved favorable results for clients in sex crime cases. We welcome the toughest cases.

Below are a sampling of cases in which Mr. Sosinsky has, in recent years, successfully represented individuals under investigation for or charged with sexual offenses in federal and state court. 

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Sex Crimes Criminal Defense

In New York, under the Penal Law, the following crimes are referred to as Sex Offenses, Prostitution Offenses, Obscenity and Related Offenses, Offenses Against Public Sensibilities and Offenses Involving the Sexual Performance of a Child:

Under federal law, the following provisions of the United States Code, involved in sexual or other related crimes:

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Sexual Misconduct
Rape
Consensual Sodomy
Sodomy
Sexual Abuse
Aggravated Sexual Abuse
Course of Conduct Against A Child
Female Genital Mutilation
Prostitution
Patronizing a Prostitute
Promoting Prostitution
Permitting Prostitution
Loitering For the Purpose of Engaging in a Prostitution Offense
Obscenity
Disseminating Indecent Materials to Minors
Public Lewdness
Exposure of a Person
Promoting the Exposure of a Person
Public Display of Offensive Sexual Material
Use of a Child in a Sexual Performance
Promoting an Obscene Sexual Performance by a Child
Possessing an Obscene Sexual Performance by a Child
Promoting a Sexual Performance by a Child
Possessing a Sexual Performance by a Child

MOST EXPERIENCED WITH THE ISSUES THAT COUNT

In sex offense cases, there are a number of legal defenses and other critical issues that tend to arise with regularity.  Only an experienced practitioner, one who has fought courtroom battles using these defenses and contended with these issues, can effectively wade through these waters to your benefit.  Fred Sosinsky has skillfully tried sex offense cases for two decades and has dealt with it all during this time. He is well-prepared to confront any evidence that a prosecutor may attempt to utilize, and to aggressively investigate all defenses that may lead to exoneration.

Mr. Sosinsky has:

• Experience in courageously investigating the background of the accuser with an eye towards developing evidence demonstrating credibility problems, a history of making false accusations and any motive to falsify her claims.
  
  
• Experience challenging the application of New York’s “Rape Shield Law” in a number of cases, including one of the most highly-publicized sex crimes cases in recent history.
  
  
• Experience litigating a prosecutor’s improper attempts to place before the jury prior instances of alleged unlawful or improper sexual behavior by the accused.
  
  
• Experience in assessing the critical role of physical and forensic evidence, and in particular serological evidence such as DNA, in establishing that there was contact between the complainant and the accused.
  
  
• Experience asserting a so-called “consent defense” in which the accused contends that any sexual contact between him and the complainant was agreed to and not a product of force.
  
  
• Experience asserting that the complainant has misidentified the accused as her assailant due to suggestive police misconduct.
  
  
• Experience asserting a defense of entrapment in the case of law enforcement “sting” operations designed to ensnare the accused in internet sex abuse and prostitution cases.
  
  
• Experience in arguing for mitigation in cases of “statutory rape.”
  
  
• Experience in federal child pornography prosecutions.
  
  
• Experience challenging the Penal Law statute in New York which has been used to prosecute persons accused of using the internet to arrange meetings with individuals they believe to be minors for the purpose of having sex with them.
  
• Experience in asserting a “consent defense” to assault charges where the assaultive conduct in question arises in the context of sado-masochistic sex.  
  
• Experience in challenging determinations made under the Sex Offense Registration Act (SORA).

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