Innocence Legal Team Blog

It may be the most serious decision you ever faced in your life. If you or a loved one is facing a serious felony charge, a homicide, a sex crime or other offense with life-changing consequences, it matters who is defending you.

The Problem Faced with an accusation and then an arrest, you hire an attorney who promises to fight for and do everything possible to protect you or your loved one. However, once your retainer fee payment cleared, the attorney practically disappeared. In particular, the attorney is not ...

If you have just been convicted of a sex crime, is there any hope? The answer is yes. Generally, there are three post-conviction relief procedures:

A false sex crime charge and an attorney without a winning strategy. You may be asking yourself, what else can go wrong? Without an effective strategy (a compelling theory of your case) there is no path to victory. But I’m innocent, you tell yourself. I’m entitled to the presumption of innocence, ...

Patrick Clancy is the Founder of the Innocence Legal Team, California’s preeminent sex crime defense law firm. With over four decades of experience in defending those wrongfully accused of Sex Crimes, Patrick Ewing Clancy is the nation’s foremost authority on sex crime justice in America, or ...

The Right Time is Now You hear from a friend or relative that someone is accusing you of sexual misconduct. Wait a minute you tell yourself, that was over twenty years ago. Or maybe you say to yourself, I know I am innocent, and I am sure that the truth will come out and I will not be harmed. ...

As we've emphasized in our previous post, My Attorney Has No Real Plan For Winning My Case. What Should I do?, the accused in a sex crime prosecution cannot prevail without a winning strategy or case theory. This requires a convincing explanation of why an accuser would make a false allegation. In ...

According to the California Department of Justice, over 40,000 sex crimes were reported in the state in 2022.

You are facing charges for a crime you didn’t commit. You hired a great attorney who promised to fight for you all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. (Of course, you forgot to ask him or her how many cases of the type you are facing the attorney has tried and won, but that’s a post for ...

DID YOU HIRE THE WRONG ATTORNEY? You are charged with a serious criminal offense such as a sex crime. If that isn’t bad enough, it now seems like you may have made a serious mistake in choosing your defense attorney. The attorney was full of fight and passion for your innocence right up to the ...