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Guideline D: Sexual Behavior

Sexual behavior involving a crime, coercion, lack of discretion, or vulnerability to pressure.

625
decided hearing cases
19%
granted

Specific issues and their outcomes

Criminal sexual conduct
13% granted · 265
Sexual behavior (unspecified)
21% granted · 237
Compulsive sexual behavior
14% granted · 96
Prostitution / solicitation
25% granted · 88
Child pornography involvement
17% granted · 83
Extramarital relationship with coercion risk
16% granted · 45

Mitigations judges credited most

Successful rehabilitation
8
Rehabilitation
5
No evidence of emotional instability
1
No longer serves as basis for coercion
1
No longer serves as a basis for blackmail
1

Counted only where the judge expressly credited the mitigation, not merely where it was claimed.

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Descriptive statistics from decided public DOHA cases. Not legal advice or a prediction. † marks samples under 20 cases.