Sex Crimes

State Judicial Waivers of Sex Offender Registration Leave Offenders in Jeopardy

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Dec 12Categories: Sex Crimes, Knowledge Sharing

Massachusetts gives little discretion to judges regarding sex offender registration when an individual is convicted of a qualifying sex offense. Pursuant to Massachusetts General Law chapter 6, section 178E (f) a judge may waive the registration requirement...

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Client Found Not Guilty of Life Felonies

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Oct 23Categories: Recent Win, Sex Crimes, Violent Crimes

On October 23, 2017 my client was found not guilty in the Middlesex Superior Court of all indictments against him including Aggravated Rape and Armed Robbery. I am so happy and relieved for him and his family.

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Defendants in the News: Burying Negative Search Engine Results for People Charged with Crimes

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Sep 11Categories: Child Abuse, Sex Crimes, Violent Crimes, Criminal Defense, Knowledge Sharing

When I have a client charged with a crime I usually can predict whether local news sources will pick up the story. Some cases involve gruesome allegations (any homicide); some may involve factual details that are bizarre (neighbor attacking neighbor with...

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Client Will Not Face Mandatory Jail Time

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Aug 18Categories: Sex Crimes, Violent Crimes, Recent Win, Child Abuse

After  trial in the Middlesex Superior Court, Keren Goldenberg’s client was found not guilty of a sex offense that carried a mandatory minimum of ten years and a maximum of life imprisonment and was convicted of a less serious charge that carries...

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University Finds that sexual assault accusation against student was not supported

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Aug 17Categories: Sex Crimes, Recent Win

A Boston-area university investigated allegations of sexual assault against my client. Today we learned that the university found that there was insufficient evidence of sexual assault. Because the Title IX complaint was not supported, the complaint has...

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Client Found NOT GUILTY of Rape

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Apr 06Categories: Sex Crimes, Criminal Defense, Recent Win

Over four years ago my client was accused of rape. I never doubted his innocence. Today he was found not guilty by a jury in the Middlesex Superior Court.

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The Law of Consent

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Oct 16Categories: Sex Crimes

This morning I read an opinion piece in the New York Times titled How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump by Peggy Ornstein. In the piece Ms. Ornstein advocates the importance of teaching young people about consent. Talking to young people about consent...

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INFOGRAPHIC – WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX LAWS

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Aug 26Categories: Sex Crimes

This is a follow up post to put in visual form what was discussed on a previous blog about sex laws. Check out the blog post HERE. If you or someone you love is accused of a sexual assault or anticipates being questioned about a sexual encounter, please...

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Appeals Court reverses statutory rape conviction because of irrelevant evidence of defendant’s possession of gay pornography

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Jul 26Categories: Child Abuse, Sex Crimes

In Commonwealth v. Christie, the Appeals Court reversed the defendant’s convictions for statutory rape “because evidence of [his] possession of videotape depictions of adult men engaged in same-sex sex was improperly admitted to demonstrate the defendant’s...

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The New Sex Ed: What Young People Need to Know About Sex Laws

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Sep 21Categories: Sex Crimes, Knowledge Sharing

Like everyone else living in New England, I could not avoid the exhaustive media coverage of the St. Paul School rape trial. From a legal perspective, there was nothing sensational about this case: a 15 year old student claimed that she had been forcibly...

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