Frisco Sex Crimes Attorney

If you have been accused of a sex offense in Frisco, the first thing to understand is that Frisco is our home city — our office sits at 5899 Preston Road, Suite 101 — and the second is that your case will be prosecuted in one of two counties. Frisco straddles the Collin–Denton county line, so while the Frisco Police Department investigates and arrests, a case is heard either in the Collin County courts in McKinney or the Denton County courts in Denton, depending on which side of the city it arises. L and L Law Group defends the full range of sex-crime and sexual-assault allegations for people in Frisco — from a first detective’s phone call through indictment and trial — in both county courthouses. This page maps that dual-county route, the offenses involved, the registration and collateral stakes, and why the smartest time to call a lawyer is before an arrest. Reach us at (972) 370-5060.

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A Defense Office You Can Walk Into — in Frisco

Start with the fact that sets this page apart from almost every other “Frisco attorney” result you will find: our office is physically in Frisco, at 5899 Preston Road, Suite 101. We are not a downtown firm buying the Frisco keyword and driving up when a hearing forces it. Frisco is where our desks are, and it is the city these allegations come out of. On the hardest morning of a person’s life, that difference is not cosmetic — it means a frightened client or a parent can sit across a table from the lawyer who will handle the case, in the same town, often the same day, instead of navigating a parking garage under a Dallas high-rise.

Being based here also happens to be strategically convenient, because Preston Road runs near the seam that splits the city between two counties. From that one address we are a short drive from the Collin County courts in McKinney and the Denton County courts in Denton — the two places a Frisco sex case can end up. We do not treat either county as foreign territory: we appear in both, we know how each set of district courts and County Courts at Law runs, and we know that the same fact pattern can move differently through Collin County than through Denton, right down to the docket rhythm and the personnel across the aisle.

There is a community dimension to it as well. The people who call us are our neighbors — they work the corporate campuses off the Dallas North Tollway, teach or send children into Frisco ISD, live in the same closely knit subdivisions where a rumor travels fast. We understand why an allegation here threatens so much more than a court file, and we handle it with that in mind. None of this rewrites the law or promises a result. What it does is put the person defending you in your own city, in the exact two courthouses your case can travel to.

The Sex Offenses We Handle for Frisco Clients

“Sex crime” is shorthand for a wide band of separate offenses in the Texas Penal Code, and the first job on any case is to pin down precisely which one an accusation actually alleges — the elements, the grade, and the punishment range all turn on that. Because the Penal Code is state law, those ranges are identical whether the file lands in McKinney or Denton; the county changes the courthouse, not the statute. Below is the range of allegations that most often bring Frisco residents through our door, grouped the way we think about them rather than as a flat list.

The assault statutes. Sexual assault under Penal Code Sec. 22.011 is generally a second-degree felony carrying 2 to 20 years, and it escalates to a first-degree felony in defined circumstances; our dedicated sexual assault defense page goes deep on consent, the elements, and SANE examinations. Aggravated sexual assault under Sec. 22.021 is a first-degree felony punishable by 5 to 99 years or life, with a 25-year floor when the complainant is a young child.

Allegations involving a child. Indecency with a child and the related child-victim offenses are graded severely in Texas and nearly always arrive with two companions — a recorded forensic interview and a parallel Child Protective Services case — that shape the defense from day one.

Internet and device-driven cases. Online solicitation of a minor under Sec. 33.021 turns communication with a minor, or with an officer posing as one, into a felony when a sexual purpose is alleged; here the “evidence” is usually a sting chat log, so who was actually at the keyboard, what the device forensics show, and how the operation was run become the whole ballgame.

Lower-grade and relationship-specific offenses. Indecent exposure is typically a Class B misdemeanor heard in the County Courts at Law, yet it still carries serious job and reputational fallout. Improper relationship between an educator and a student is a second-degree felony that simultaneously puts a teaching certificate at risk, tying liberty and livelihood together. And failure to register is charged under Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 62 when a person already on the registry misses a duty, with its grade tracking the original offense. Our sex crimes practice overview lays out the full catalog.

One Office, Two Courthouses: The Collin–Denton Split

Here is the wrinkle a Frisco case carries that an ordinary single-county case does not. Frisco sits astride a county line — the bulk of the city is in Collin County, while a sizable western slice belongs to Denton County, with Preston Road tracing close to the divide. Because Texas tries a felony in the county where the offense is alleged to have happened, the side of that invisible line the accused conduct falls on decides the courthouse, the jail, the prosecutors, and a raft of local practices. The Frisco Police Department opens and works the file no matter what; everything downstream forks by county. That is why, on a Frisco intake, our first question is frequently not “what is the charge” but “which county owns it” — and why two nearly identical accusations can end up in buildings roughly thirty miles apart, one north, one west, before different judges and different District Attorney’s offices. The table lays out both routes side by side.

Mechanically, the path from either side runs the same shape even though the addresses differ. Frisco officers make the arrest but hold no one long-term on a felony sex charge, so the person is moved to the county jail that owns the case, where booking, fingerprinting, intake, and bond posting all occur. Within roughly a day a magistrate reviews the matter, reads the charges and rights, sets bail, and — in a sex case, almost always — attaches conditions of release before anyone walks out. A felony then requires a grand jury in that county to return an indictment before it advances through announcements, pretrial motions, and any trial setting, prosecuted by that county’s Criminal District Attorney. Our plain-English walkthrough of what happens after a Texas arrest follows that sequence end to end. Knowing which fork you are on early is not a technicality — it is what lets a family stop guessing about which building holds their loved one and how to reach them.

The Quiet Weeks Before an Arrest — and Why They Decide Cases

Ask most people to picture a sex case beginning and they imagine an arrest. In practice, a large share of Frisco cases open in near-silence, and the loudest thing that ever happens may be a phone that rings once. A Frisco detective leaves a message asking you to “come in and clear something up.” A school or a CPS caseworker files a report you never see. Word reaches you secondhand that someone has made an accusation. This pre-charge stretch can run for weeks or months in both Collin and Denton County, and — this is the part people underestimate — what you do inside it often matters more to the outcome than anything that happens later in a courtroom.

Consider what an investigator will typically invite a person to do during that window: give a “voluntary” statement, sit for a polygraph, hand over a phone or laptop “so we can rule you out,” or simply talk it through without a lawyer. Each request sounds like a chance to make the problem go away; each can instead cement evidence the State uses months later. A lawyer brought in at this stage can decline those requests for you, deal with the Frisco detective and CPS directly, decide what — if anything — gets disclosed, and in the right case put exculpatory facts in front of the prosecutor before a charging decision is ever made. Because we are ten minutes away in Frisco, that first conversation does not have to wait.

Early counsel also stops the self-inflicted wounds we see over and over. Someone deletes texts or takes down a social-media account in a panic — and creates a separate tampering charge that looks like guilt. Someone reaches out to the complainant to apologize or to ask “why are you doing this” — and hands the State a recorded admission and a fresh charge. Guidance in the first hours prevents most of these. If a detective or a caseworker has contacted you about an allegation in Frisco, the point of calling a lawyer is not to look guilty; it is to keep from accidentally proving a case that may not otherwise exist.

When a Child Is Involved: The Advocacy-Center Interview

Whenever an allegation involves a child, one institution ends up driving the case: the county children’s advocacy center. A child in Frisco who makes an outcry is generally not questioned at the police station. Instead, a trained forensic interviewer records a single interview at the advocacy center while officers and a CPS investigator watch from another room, the design being to gather the account once, in a neutral and developmentally appropriate way. Which center handles it follows the county line like everything else — the Children’s Advocacy Center of Collin County for Collin-side Frisco cases, or the advocacy center serving Denton County on the Denton side.

That recording tends to become the spine of the State’s case, which is exactly why a careful defense studies it frame by frame rather than taking it at face value. The questions we press are about reliability, not the child: To whom was the outcry first made, and how did it surface? Was a divorce, a custody battle, or some other pressure sitting in the background? Were the interviewer’s prompts genuinely open, or did they steer? Was the child interviewed once or several times, and did the story move between tellings? Testing how an account was collected is not an attack on a child — it is the work the presumption of innocence and the burden of proof demand of anyone standing between an accusation and a conviction.

Almost always, a Child Protective Services case runs on a parallel track, under its own lower standard of proof and its own clock, and it can move on custody, visitation, and where a person lives well before the criminal case resolves. What is decided in one can bleed into the other, so the two have to be handled together, never in separate silos.

Getting Out, and the Strings Attached: Bond Conditions

Bail in a sex case is really two decisions bundled together: the dollar figure for release, and the list of rules the accused must live under while the case is pending. In both Collin and Denton County — the two that can claim a Frisco case — that second list runs long, because these allegations so often revolve around one specific person: a relative, an acquaintance, or a child. The court sets conditions to keep distance between the accused and that complainant, and the reach can be wide.

Typical conditions of bond include no contact with the complaining witness; no contact with any child or with the complainant’s household; staying clear of schools, parks, and places children gather; GPS or other monitoring in some cases; surrender of a passport; and, in internet cases, curbs on device or internet use. In real terms these can dictate where a person sleeps, whether they can remain in their own Frisco home, and whether they can see their own children — and breaking a single one can trigger revocation and a fresh arrest into whichever county jail holds the case.

This is where counsel earns its keep on two fronts. Up front, we argue for a workable bail amount and for conditions drawn no wider than the situation actually requires. Later, when a condition proves impossible to live with — say a blanket no-contact order that walls a parent off from children who were never part of the allegation — we go back to the court to modify it. Because we practice in both the McKinney and Denton courts, we know how each tends to set and revisit these terms. For the mechanics of release, see our pages on bail and bond requirements and bond conditions.

When It Comes Down to One Person’s Word

One feature separates sex-offense cases from most other charges: a great many stand or fall on an accusation alone. Often there is no DNA, no injury logged by a SANE nurse, no witness — just a delayed outcry, a disputed encounter, or two irreconcilable accounts of the same evening. That vacuum makes the charge no less grave, but it does move the whole contest onto credibility, context, and the reliability of how the story was gathered and preserved.

False and mistaken accusations are part of this terrain, not a talking point. They grow out of scorched-earth custody and divorce fights, out of honest misunderstandings, out of pressure leaned on a child, out of motives that have nothing to do with what actually occurred. A serious defense does not start by calling any complainant a liar; it starts by insisting the State prove its case and then testing that case without mercy — the timeline, the circumstances of the outcry, the contradictions between accounts, the forensic and digital proof, and the methods used to collect all of it. In an internet case, that means dismantling the sting: who made first contact, what was truly said, whether the statute’s constitutional guardrails held, and whether the person the State names is even the person behind the screen.

In this arena the presumption of innocence is not decoration. It is the safeguard that keeps a person from being convicted on a word no one ever tested, and forcing the State to carry its burden beyond a reasonable doubt is the essential work of a sex-crimes defense lawyer.

The Registry and the Life Beyond the Sentence

For most people facing a sex charge out of Frisco, prison is only half the fear. The other half is the Texas sex-offender registry — and it deserves to sit at the center of the defense from the first meeting, not to be discovered at sentencing. Nothing else in a sex case reaches as far into an ordinary life, which is why we weigh it from day one.

Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 62 tags a long roster of offenses as “reportable convictions or adjudications” that force registration — a ten-year duty after the sentence is fully discharged for some, a lifetime duty for others. Registration is public; it governs where a person may live and work; it imposes recurring in-person verification; and it can shadow someone for decades after any prison term is behind them. Because it latches onto specific offenses and specific dispositions, the exact charge and the exact final resolution decide whether it attaches at all — which is why a resolution that steers clear of a registrable offense, where the facts and law permit, can be worth far more than shaving months off a jail number. For those already carrying the duty, Texas allows limited routes to early termination of registration, work our firm also takes on. Whether registration can be avoided, narrowed, or eventually ended is a strategic thread we pull from the outset.

The registry is also just the most visible of the collateral hits. A sex allegation ripples outward long before any verdict, and in Frisco — where so many clients hold licenses, security clearances, or teaching certificates — those ripples are wide. A professional license through a Texas agency can be acted on independently of the criminal case, often faster and on a lighter standard of proof, putting nurses, teachers, engineers, and commercial drivers at risk of losing a career while the charge is still pending. A parallel CPS case or protective order can rearrange custody and living arrangements on its own timeline. For non-citizens, many sex offenses carry removal and other severe immigration exposure that can dwarf the sentence itself. And in a community this networked, the reputational cost of even an accusation is real. The takeaway is not a catalog of dread — it is that every decision in the criminal case has to be measured against these downstream effects, because a choice that looks fine in isolation, a quick plea or a “voluntary” statement, can widen the damage on every one of these fronts at once.

What Working With Our Frisco Office Looks Like

L and L Law Group, PLLC is a Frisco firm run by two Co-Founding Partners, Reggie London and Njeri London, and everything above is how we actually approach these cases, not a brochure. Our address is 5899 Preston Road in Frisco — the city we practice in, not one we advertise into — and we stand up in both the Collin County courts in McKinney and the Denton County courts in Denton, the two forums a Frisco case can reach. What that looks like in practice comes down to four commitments.

We start before the handcuffs when we can. Since so much is settled in the quiet pre-arrest window, we take pre-charge cases and work to steer the investigation itself — dealing with Frisco detectives and CPS on your behalf, heading off the self-inflicted mistakes, and, in the right case, shaping whether a charge is filed at all.

We take the State’s evidence apart. That means pressing on how a forensic interview was conducted, how an outcry surfaced, what a SANE exam did and did not establish, how device and digital evidence was gathered, and how a sting was run — and refusing to let the prosecution off its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

We treat the registry and collateral fallout as first-order questions. From the opening conversation we track whether a given charge or resolution triggers registration and how it hits licensing, family, and immigration, because for many of our clients those consequences weigh as heavily as any sentence.

We keep the dignity intact. An accusation is not a conviction, and the people who come to us are scared, often ashamed, and presumed innocent under the law. We explain things in plain language, we promise no outcomes, and we tell the truth about what a case realistically demands. The first consultation is free and confidential, we pick up the phone around the clock, and we serve Spanish-speaking clients through bilingual intake and our Spanish-language site. If you or someone you love has been accused of a sex offense in Frisco — or has only just learned of an investigation — the single most useful move is to talk to a lawyer before the next thing happens. Call (972) 370-5060 for a free, confidential consultation at our Frisco office.