{"id":312,"date":"2018-03-17T12:55:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T16:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgsexcrimeslawyer.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2024-09-06T12:28:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:28:57","slug":"email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Email, Cellphone Evidence Key in Florida Sex Crime Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic evidence like emails and text messages are often at the center of Florida sex crime cases. A <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/files\/201614959.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent federal case<\/a> out of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals is a good example of how that evidence often comes into play.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, an FBI agent responded to a Craigslist ad posted by the defendant. The ad allegedly used code words indicating that he was looking to have sex with young children. The agent posed as the father of a 10-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl. The defendant expressed an interest in having sex with the kids during a series of subsequent email exchanges, according to the court. He later confirmed that interest in a recorded phone call. He was arrested after driving to the place where he and the agent had agreed to meet.He consented to having his email and cellphone searched, along with his car. He also agreed to allow officers to assume his online identity. He admitted to posting several ads soliciting sex with children. He also acknowledged that he had agreed with the agent to meet for the purpose of having sex with a minor. A search of his cellphone turned up all of the emails with the FBI agent. He additionally told the cops that he had communicated with another person about having sex with the man\u2019s 12-year-old child four years earlier. Those communications eventually ended when the man stopped responding, he told the police.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/#more-312\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic evidence like emails and text messages are often at the center of Florida sex crime cases. A recent federal case out of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals is a good example of how that evidence often comes into play. In 2015, an FBI agent responded to a Craigslist ad posted by the defendant. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-crimes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Email, Cellphone Evidence Key in Florida Sex Crime Cases &#8212; St. Petersburg Criminal Lawyer Blog &#8212; March 17, 2018<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Electronic evidence like emails and text messages are often at the center of Florida sex crime cases. A recent federal case out of the Eleventh Circuit &#8212; March 17, 2018\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Email, Cellphone Evidence Key in Florida Sex Crime Cases &#8212; St. Petersburg Criminal Lawyer Blog &#8212; March 17, 2018\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Electronic evidence like emails and text messages are often at the center of Florida sex crime cases. A recent federal case out of the Eleventh Circuit &#8212; March 17, 2018\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"St. Petersburg Criminal Lawyer Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-03-17T16:55:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-06T16:28:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Hanlon Law, PA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Hanlon Law, PA\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Email, Cellphone Evidence Key in Florida Sex Crime Cases &#8212; St. Petersburg Criminal Lawyer Blog &#8212; March 17, 2018","description":"Electronic evidence like emails and text messages are often at the center of Florida sex crime cases. A recent federal case out of the Eleventh Circuit &#8212; March 17, 2018","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Email, Cellphone Evidence Key in Florida Sex Crime Cases &#8212; St. Petersburg Criminal Lawyer Blog &#8212; March 17, 2018","og_description":"Electronic evidence like emails and text messages are often at the center of Florida sex crime cases. A recent federal case out of the Eleventh Circuit &#8212; March 17, 2018","og_url":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/","og_site_name":"St. Petersburg Criminal Lawyer Blog","article_published_time":"2018-03-17T16:55:58+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-09-06T16:28:57+00:00","author":"Hanlon Law, PA","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Hanlon Law, PA","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/"},"author":{"name":"Hanlon Law, PA","@id":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e62d4e140f78dfe2fb0dd2758275b312"},"headline":"Email, Cellphone Evidence Key in Florida Sex Crime Cases","datePublished":"2018-03-17T16:55:58+00:00","dateModified":"2024-09-06T16:28:57+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/"},"wordCount":565,"articleSection":["Sex Crimes"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/","url":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/","name":"Email, Cellphone Evidence Key in Florida Sex Crime Cases &#8212; St. Petersburg Criminal Lawyer Blog &#8212; March 17, 2018","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-03-17T16:55:58+00:00","dateModified":"2024-09-06T16:28:57+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e62d4e140f78dfe2fb0dd2758275b312"},"description":"Electronic evidence like emails and text messages are often at the center of Florida sex crime cases. A recent federal case out of the Eleventh Circuit &#8212; March 17, 2018","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/email-cellphone-evidence-key-florida-sex-crime-cases\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Email, Cellphone Evidence Key in Florida Sex Crime Cases"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/","name":"St. Petersburg Criminal Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by St. Petersburg Criminal Lawyer Attorney \u2014 Hanlon Law","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e62d4e140f78dfe2fb0dd2758275b312","name":"Hanlon Law, PA","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/28c5c60eb08894e1f2f27e2e759788e24587bda0a815ed045456f272f44b2849?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/28c5c60eb08894e1f2f27e2e759788e24587bda0a815ed045456f272f44b2849?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/28c5c60eb08894e1f2f27e2e759788e24587bda0a815ed045456f272f44b2849?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Hanlon Law, PA"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/"]}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}