A person can be charged with rape if:

(1)  They had sexual intercourse with a person who could not give their legal consent because the alleged victim was drunk, drugged, unconscious, misled into thinking that the person having sex with them was their spouse or partner; or, the accused rapist threatened the victim's life or another person's life unless the victim agreed to engage in sexual intercourse with them.

(2)  They forced another person to have sex with them.

When the Accused Knows the Victim
If the accused rapist knows the victim, the issue of whether the victim agreed to have sex with the accused rapist will be very important. During these kinds of cases:

• The police will question the victim about the rape.
• The Sexual Abuse Response Team (SART) will give the alleged victim a medical exam to see if there is physical evidence of rape.

Often, the police will not be very thorough or exact when doing interviews with witnesses who may be potentially crucial to the case. Therefore, if you are charged with committing rape and knew the victim, it is important that you hire an experienced Riverside County criminal defense lawyer who will interview these witnesses with the assistance of his professional investigator, often a retired police veteran. The investigator will also get sworn statements from other witnesses helpful to your defense who were not even interviewed by the police. Your lawyer can also evaluate the results of the medical examinations of the alleged rape victim and suspect by the Sexual Abuse Response Team (SART) and hire a trained medical expert to evaluate the results of these examinations.

A rape case where the accused rapist knows the alleged victim can often be successfully defended—even dismissed—with the right criminal defense team and your experienced Riverside rape defense lawyer who will know how to evaluate the results of his team's investigation and expertise and put together A WINNING DEFENSE STRATEGY FOR YOU!

When the Accused Doesn't Know the Victim
In cases were the accused rapist does not know the victim, correctly identifying the rapist becomes a main issue. If you have been charged with raping someone you do not know, you must hire an experienced Murrieta criminal defense team right away so they can interview the witnesses for the prosecution, show them different photos than the ones law enforcement officers may have shown them, or set up a live lineup to make sure that the identification process does not unjustly identify you as the perpetrator of the rape.

Your Riverside County rape defense attorney will hire an experienced professional investigator, often an experienced retired police detective, to interview potential alibis that can testify as to whether you were at the scene during the time of the rape. Your attorney can also retain an expert on eyewitness identification to evaluate the identification procedures used by the police in your case and to identify the inherent problems in the procedures employed by police investigators. Your professional identification expert can make the difference between a successful defense that results in charges being dismissed or a not guilty verdict at trial. For instance, the identification expert will discuss any identification mistakes that can take place because of police tactics or ethnic or racial stereotyping. YOU MUST SELECT AN EXPERIENCED RIVERSIDE CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER AS SOON AS YOU ARE SUSPECTED OF A RAPE CRIME! YOUR DEFENSE LAWYER MUST HAVE A WINNING ATTITUDE AND HAVE THE EXPERIENCE TO PREPARE A WINNING DEFENSE STRATEGY FOR YOU!

IF YOU ARE ACCUSED OF A RAPE CRIME THAT TOOK PLACE IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY OR ANY OTHER AREA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, IMMEDIATELY CONACT ATTORNEY STEPHEN R. BRODSKY FOR A FREE CONSULTATION ON HOW TO PREPARE A WINNING DEFENSE STRATEGY FOR YOUR CASE. YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO DELAY OR ENTRUST YOUR DEFENSE AGAINST RAPE CHARGES TO A LESS EXPERIENCED ATTORNEY. THE RESULTS CAN BE DISASTROUS AND PERMANENTLY HARM YOUR LIFE. YOU MUST EMPLOY AN EXPERIENCED CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER LIKE STEPHEN R. BRODSKY WHO KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT STEPS TO TAKE TO PROTECT YOUR FREEDOM AND RECORD. CONTACT ATTORNEY STEPHEN R. BRODSKY TODAY IF YOU ARE SUSPECTED OF COMMITTING A RAPE CRIME. CALL US TODAY AT 800-878-3435 OR CONTACT US ONLINE.