# Man Is Spared Life-Changing Consequences for Juvenile Behavior

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## Man Is Spared Life-Changing Consequences for Juvenile Behavior

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More than a year of out-of-court defense work produced a plea agreement with no felony conviction, no sex offender registration, and no jail or prison time.

## Case Summary

*The accusation*

The claim was that our client had sexual contact with younger relatives while he himself was a young teenager. No one reported the conduct at the time it happened. It surfaced roughly a decade later, when the client was in his mid-twenties, by which point the case could no longer proceed in juvenile court, where any penalties would have been far more lenient.

*The charge*

Two counts of Rape of a Child in the First Degree and two counts of Child Molestation in the First Degree.

*The possible sentence*

240-318 months to life in prison, a felony conviction, and mandatory registration as a sex offender.

*The defense David Marshall presented*

More than a year of vigorous out-of-court advocacy aimed at the prosecutor's charging and sentencing decisions, before the case ever reached a courtroom.

*The result*

A plea bargain that spares the man a felony conviction, spares him registration as a sex offender, and spares him any time behind bars.

*What helped win the case*

We conducted sustained pressure on the prosecutor for more than a year, focusing on the facts that the conduct was reported a full decade after it happened, once the client was already in his mid-twenties, when juvenile court was no longer an option even though the conduct itself occurred while he was still a young teenager.

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