Sexual Assault Defense

Aggressive, dedicated, and experienced military defense team fighting for Soldiers, Airmen, Marines, Sailors, and Coast Guardsmen all over the world.

Our dedicated, experienced, and aggressive trial lawyers have served as both prosecutors and defense attorneys, and we know how the military plans, prepares, and tries sexual assault offenses. When you hire us to represent you in a sexual assault case, you will be assigned one our most experienced defense attorneys as lead counsel, an assisting attorney, a paralegal, and a trained investigator to assist in your case.  You will have a team of experts fighting for your rights!

We know that investigative organizations like OSI, CID, CGIS, or NCIS claim to be neutral fact-finding organizations who simply want to find the truth.  Don’t believe that for a second. Military investigators will lie to you, trick you, and do everything in their power to incriminate you.  It’s not uncommon for these law enforcement officers to interrogate you for hours, confront you with facts and evidence that don’t exist, and then inform your chain of command that you’re guilty of sexual assault before you ever appear in court. In fact, they are allowed to lie to you to gain valuable evidence, but if they feel that you have lied to them, they can stack on additional criminal charges for giving them false statements!

After hours of interrogation, you will be flagged, suspended from duty, and your career will be placed in a complete standstill.  After all of this, you will find out that the military will not even assign you a defense attorney until charges are preferred against you, which can take months or even years.  During that time, law enforcement and the military prosecutor are busy building their case against you, collecting evidence, conducting witness interviews, and trying to find every ex-spouse, girlfriend or boyfriend that you have hoping to locate another “victim.”  By the time charges are preferred, the deck is stacked against you, and the military is ready to turn you into a lifelong sex offender.

Here’s the good news: YOU CAN FIGHT BACK, AND YOU CAN LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD.  At Shewmaker and Shewmaker, we don’t wait for law enforcement to finish its investigation to start defending your case.  Before charges are even preferred, you will be assigned a team of legal professionals to help you.  Each client accused of sexual assault will get one of our most experienced sexual assault attorneys to lead your case, a second attorney to provide necessary assistance, a paralegal, and an experienced sexual assault investigator to collect evidence, interview witnesses, and provide you with the necessary updates on the status of your case.  In other words, you will no longer be in the dark, and you will get the answers that you deserve.  Take a look at our most recent case results and you will see how our proactive approach works and how those techniques can help lead to a dismissal or a full acquittal in your case.