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Doctor Sentenced to 41 Months for Possessing Child Pornography in Orange County

By Michael Guisti on July 7, 2014

Santa Ana, CA – The internet grants people a certain degree of anonymity. Most people simply use this as license to be rude to each other in comment threads and discussion forums. However, someone people, believing their online actions to be invisible or untraceable use the internet to commit crimes. Among the largest categories of online crime are fraud and child pornography.

Robert Harold Dolin, 55, was sentenced to 41 months in prison on June 30 after pleading guilty to one count of possessing child pornography, a felony. The sentence was handed down by US District Judge James V. Seina, who noted in his sentence that possession and production of child pornography is “a real crime with real victims. It is serious and must be deterred.” Dolin was arrested in a probe by the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arm of Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE) working with the Orange County Child Exploitation Task Force and Kaiser Permanente, Dolin’s former employer.

!n 2008, Kaiser Permanente brought Dolin to the attention of HSI, after their own internal monitoring showed that Dolin’s work computer had visited child exploitation websites. Agents obtained and search warrant and ultimately found that Dolin had used his work computer to download over 1,000 images of child pornography, often involving abuse of prepubescent children or even infants and toddlers.

Since 2003, the HSI’s Operation Predator has arrested over 10,000 suspects on charges of child pornography or sex trafficking, more than 2,000 of them in 2013 alone.

Many people believe that their online activity is completely anonymous but that simply isn’t the case. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or network administrator is able to monitor your online activity and although there are no laws requiring it, they will often report suspicious activity to the relevant law enforcement agencies. This can be enough evidence for a search warrant to be issued and your computer confiscated—meaning that any incriminating information on your hard drive or other storage devices could be used against you in court.

According sex crime attorney Michael Guisti, child pornography and other felony charges are a serious matter and require a rigorous courtroom defense. Everyone who has been accused of a crime is guaranteed the right to legal representation, so the best thing you can do when you’re facing criminal charges is hire a skilled criminal defense attorney. The law is often complex and many offenses have gradations of severity which will allow a competent lawyer to have charges against their client reduced or dismissed, particularly if the prosecution does not have enough evidence to obtain a conviction on the most severe charge.

At the Law Office of Michael L. Guisti, our experienced, award-winning criminal defense attorneys have been practicing law in Southern California and know all the best strategies for defending clients against charges like murder, theft, fraud, child pornography, domestic violence, and arson. We’ve built up strong relationships with local prosecutors, law enforcement agencies, and judges that allow us to more effectively protect our clients’ rights and interests in state and federal courts.

Our firm is committed to providing our clients with the highest quality representation so that they can keep their life on track during a difficult time. We maintain offices throughout Orange County in Irvine, Santa Ana, Garden Grove, and Newport Beach, and we have defended clients throughout Southern California. We love the diversity of Southern California’s local communities and are proud to offer our clients foreign language assistance when needed.

If you or a loved one has been charged with a crime in Southern California and want the best possible defense, call the Law Office of Michael L. Guisti at (714) 707-2797 for a free consultation with one of our confident, experienced criminal defense attorneys.

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