Sex Crimes Attorney in Alexandria, Virginia
Can you tell us about a memorable sex crime case you handled?
Can you tell us about a memorable sex crime case you handled?
More In This Category
View Transcript
I mean I’ve had many many of them I mean
I’ll I’ll name one in a minute but one
thing I would say about him is that out
of all the sex offense cases I’ve
handled I would say half of them never
went to court meaning there was an
allegation you had a client there was an
investigation done or something and it
turned out that they weren’t prosecuted
and that’s really quite often not
because me it’s because of the facts of
the evidence of the actual case that it
happened I represented a guy who was
accused of a
serial number of sex offenses and this
was back before the new law about this
but you know he was tracked with GPS
tracking without a warrant and that was
the first time in Virginia this had come
up in a case of this magnitude so I
raised it in the circuit court and ended
up appealing that through the Virginia
supreme court because at that time there
were no rules about whether the
government could track someone with GPS
tracking without a warrant and while
that case so that was really interesting
because we got to be the first people in
Virginia raising that question uh before
we got done with our case Jones V United
States went to the US Supreme Court
where the US Supreme Court held that
indeed it does require a warrant to
track someone with GPS because it’s a
seizure to attach a tracking device
let’s say to a car so we didn’t you know
that that affected our case but it
wasn’t because we got to go to the
Supreme Court because that other case
went there first but that was really
interesting because the evidence in that
case was of guilt was overwhelming there
was no reasonable way to deny that but
the issue was about the Fourth Amendment
and you know whether the government
should be allowed without a warrant to
have that level of intrusion into
people’s lives and it turns out the
answer to that because of the case I
just named and also cases that have
followed that is tracking with cell
phones or other methods these days
require warrant
Contact Christopher Leibig
Email This Lawyer
(703) 683-4310
See All This Lawyer's Videos
Visit Lawyer's Website
Alexandria, VA criminal defense attorney Chris Leibig talks about a memorable sex crime case he handled.
