Originally Posted by Webattorney

I don't often respond to the misinformation on this board, but this statement is simply not true. In my career, there have been exactly two adult industry clients who decided to accept a negotiated guilty plea, which included a prison sentence, instead of risking a much longer prison term by going to trial. One was an scat obscenity case in West Virginia, and the other was a state prostitution/racketeering case in the Panhandle of Florida. The lawyer has no control over a client's decision to accept a guilty plea. In both cases, we worked out a deal with prosecutors that resulted in substantially less punishment than the clients were facing if they went to trial and lost. If you research my career, you will find that more often, I get clients out of jail, by making compelling First Amendment arguments. Research the cases involving John Stelmack or Chris Wilson. I secured the release of both those individuals on First Amendment grounds. We've beat back many obscenity cases, which have resulted in no jail and no felony convictions. Unfortunately, any lawyer that practices criminal law will have clients that go to jail. Max Hardcore and Rob Black were defended by some of the best First Amendment lawyers in the country, and both went to jail. But I recommend that you look at a lawyer's overall career and success rate when making a decision on legal representation.