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Guideline D: Sexual Behavior

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

633
decided hearing cases
20%
granted

The specific issues, and how they fared

Criminal sexual conduct
13% granted · 268
Sexual behavior (unspecified)
23% granted · 244
Compulsive sexual behavior
14% granted · 96
Prostitution / solicitation
25% granted · 88
Child pornography involvement
17% granted · 83
Extramarital relationship with coercion risk
17% granted · 46

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.