High-Profile New York Rape Trial
The Firm secured a complete acquittal on all counts for a business owner charged with sexual assault.
The client faced 5 to 25 years in prison. The jury returned its verdict in less than two hours.
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NYC Sexual Assault Defense Lawyers With Proven Trial Experience
A sexual-assault allegation can threaten your freedom, reputation, career, relationships, and future before a jury ever hears the evidence.
Fast Law represents clients facing serious sexual-assault and sex-offense investigations and prosecutions in New York and federal court.
Our attorneys have obtained complete acquittals in sexual-assault trials, secured dismissals through motion practice, and represented clients in investigations that concluded without charges.
When the allegations are serious, actual experience trying these cases matters.
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- Former Prosecutors
- 70+ Cases Tried to Verdict
- 25+ Lead-Counsel Verdicts by Elena Fast
- Multiple Sexual-Assault Acquittals
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Sex crime allegations
Serious Sexual-Assault Allegations Demand a Serious Defense
Sexual-assault cases can be uniquely difficult.
The accusation itself can have immediate consequences for employment, professional licensing, family relationships, immigration status, education, reputation, and personal freedom.
These cases may depend heavily on evidence requiring careful reconstruction: text messages, social media, photographs, location information, witnesses, surveillance, forensic evidence, medical records, prior communications, and the circumstances surrounding the alleged encounter.
Fast Law begins by understanding what actually happened and identifying evidence that supports, contradicts, or provides context to the allegation.
The Firm represents clients before arrest, after charges are filed, through grand jury proceedings and motion practice, and at trial.
Representative results
Representative Sexual-Assault Results
Broome County, New York
Two-Week Rape Trial
After a two-week trial, a Kings County jury acquitted the client of every charge in under 30 minutes.
The client faced incarceration and SORA registration.
High-Profile Rape Prosecution
The Firm secured dismissal of all charges after extensive motion practice established that the grand jury presentation was legally insufficient.
The client had faced 5 to 25 years in prison and SORA registration.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case depends on its own facts and circumstances.
Trial experience
Actual Sexual-Assault Trial Experience
Not every sexual-assault case should go to trial.
But the defense should be prepared for that possibility.
Sexual-assault trials can require careful cross-examination, reconstruction of communications and relationships, analysis of forensic and medical evidence, understanding evidentiary rules, and presenting highly sensitive facts clearly and persuasively to a jury.
Fast Law attorneys regularly litigate serious sexual-assault matters. Elena Fast and Michael Perkins have served as trial counsel in sexual-offense cases resulting in complete acquittals.
The Firm prepares serious allegations with the discipline of lawyers who may ultimately have to present the case to a jury.
What we defend
Matters We Handle
- Rape and Sexual Assault
- Predatory Sexual Assault
- Sexual Abuse
- Forcible Touching
- Pre-Arrest Sexual-Assault Investigations
- Federal Sex Offenses
- Child Sexual Abuse Material / CSAM Cases
- Internet and Electronic-Evidence Cases
- SORA Proceedings and Registration Issues
Our approach
How We Defend Sexual-Assault Cases
Communications and Digital Evidence
Texts, calls, social-media communications, photographs, location data, app information, and other digital evidence may provide important context.
Credibility and Inconsistencies
Where accounts conflict, the defense examines consistency, timing, context, corroboration, and reliability.
Consent
Where legally relevant, the defense examines communications, conduct, circumstances, and evidence surrounding the alleged encounter.
Identification
Some cases involve disputed identification or uncertainty concerning who committed the alleged conduct.
Alibi and Location Evidence
Witnesses, surveillance, location data, records, receipts, and other evidence may contradict an alleged timeline.
Medical and Forensic Evidence
The defense may evaluate medical records, DNA evidence, toxicology, forensic testing, or expert evidence where relevant.
Police Statements and Searches
Fast Law evaluates whether statements were lawfully obtained and whether searches of devices, homes, accounts, or property complied with applicable constitutional requirements.
Grand Jury and Motion Practice
Sexual-assault prosecutions can sometimes be challenged through grand jury litigation, suppression motions, discovery litigation, evidentiary motions, or legal-sufficiency arguments.
Before an arrest
Representation Before an Arrest
Clients do not necessarily have to wait for an arrest to retain defense counsel.
Early representation can allow the defense to preserve communications and other evidence, investigate witnesses while memories are fresh, evaluate law-enforcement requests, and determine whether defense advocacy is appropriate before a charging decision.
No lawyer can promise that charges will be avoided.
But important decisions are frequently made before an arrest, and those decisions should be made with legal advice.
Why Fast Law
Why Fast Law for a Serious Sexual-Assault Case?
Actual Sexual-Assault Trial Experience
The Firm has obtained complete acquittals in sexual-assault trials.
Serious Trial Practice
Fast Law regularly represents clients whose liberty, careers, reputations, and futures are at stake.
Former Prosecutors
The defense team includes lawyers with prior prosecution experience.
Direct Attorney Involvement
Serious matters receive hands-on attention from experienced attorneys.
Investigation Through Trial
Representation can begin before arrest and continue through grand jury proceedings, motions, trial, sentencing, and appeal.
Client reviews
What Our Clients Say
★★★★★
“Very professional, knowledgeable, and dedicated. Handled my case with care and delivered great results. Highly recommend.”
★★★★★
“Mr. Perkins picked up my case, talked everything through, and got my case dismissed.”
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Your team
Attorneys
Elena Fast
Founding & Managing Partner
Former Brooklyn felony prosecutor Elena Fast has tried more than 25 matters to verdict as lead counsel. Her experience includes serious sexual-assault trials resulting in complete acquittals.
Michael Perkins
Attorney
Michael Perkins represents clients in serious criminal matters and has served as trial counsel with Elena Fast in sexual-offense cases resulting in complete acquittals.
Answers
Sexual-Assault FAQ
Yes. Counsel can investigate the allegation, preserve evidence, evaluate requests from law enforcement, communicate with investigators or prosecutors where appropriate, and prepare for a possible charging decision.
Yes, depending on the circumstances. Fast Law has obtained dismissal of a rape prosecution through motion practice after successfully challenging the legal sufficiency of the grand jury presentation.
Texts, social media, photographs, location data, witnesses, surveillance, medical records, forensic evidence, phone data, and communications before and after an alleged incident may all be relevant.
No. Prior consensual conduct does not by itself establish consent to the specific conduct being investigated.
Founding attorney Elena Fast remains directly involved in the strategy and preparation of serious sexual-assault cases accepted by the Firm.
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Facing a Serious Sexual-Assault Allegation?
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