Choosing the Hallam Law Group as your criminal defense attorney in a child sexual exploitive material case is the right decision for your defense. With over 27 years of representing clients accused of child sexual exploitation and other sexually based offenses, Josephine “Jody” Hallam knows the law inside and out. Her dedicated staff have trained and mentored under her for years, learning from her extensive knowledge and courtroom experience.

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Jody shares some insight into what she has learned from defending these difficult and high-stakes cases:

“Over the years of representing clients who have been charged with having child pornography on one or more of their devices, a pattern of stories has come up. Before I get to that, I want to be clear how serious of an accusation this is. In Arizona, child pornography is referred to as ‘sexual exploitation of a minor’. Sexual exploitation of a minor is not a crime that the state of Arizona takes lightly. It carries a presumptive punishment of 17 years in prison, per picture. If you have more than one picture, the 17-year punishments are stacked on top of one another, for 17 years of prison time, separately, for each individual picture. So at the presumptive sentencing level, 5 pictures depicting sexual exploitation of a minor would carry a presumptive 85-year prison sentence” —Josephine Pesaresi Hallam.

Often, new clients give some version of one of five basic storylines to explain the presence of child sexual exploitative material on their devices:

1.    1.     I have open Wi-Fi accessibility in my house, so someone else must have gotten on my Wi-Fi and downloaded it. It wasn’t me, but it’s showing that it came from my IP address because they got on my Wi-Fi.
2.     2.     Other people have access to my devices, and my access code is readily known.
3.     3.     I am a vigilante, either trying to find child pornography to report it to the authorities, or to single-handedly catch and trap people distributing child pornography, and then report them to the authorities.
4.     4.     I was looking at regular pornography, and one picture of child pornography popped up that must have been mixed up in the large photo dump I downloaded onto my computer.
5.     5.     I admit, I have child pornography on my phone. It started as an addiction to regular pornography, and I fell down some sort of dark rabbit hole. I’ve wanted to stop every day since I started looking at it and I don’t know where to go for help.

Since the State has access to skilled forensic experts who can identify what was viewed on a device, when, and for how long, the first four explanations often fail under scrutiny.

The Hallam Law Group works with a network of trial-tested expert witnesses — including neuropsychologists, computer forensic analysts, and false confession specialists — to build strategic and comprehensive defenses for clients accused of possessing or distributing child sexual exploitative material.

If you’ve been charged with such a serious offense, entrust your defense to an experienced attorney you can rely on. Contact us today.

Josephine Hallam

Ms. Hallam’s family has a deep-rooted legacy in the law, and she was raised with a respect and reverence for our legal system and our Constitution. Ms. Hallam dedicated the first part of her career as an attorney to public service. She was incredibly proud to work with attorneys at the Maricopa County Public Defender’s office who tirelessly advocated on behalf of indigent clients. She is now a proud criminal defense lawyer in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Years Of Experience: 27
Justia Profile: Josephine Hallam
Bar Number: 018557
Location: Phoenix, AZ

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