Can You Be Charged With a Sex Crime Without Physical Evidence? Attorneys Christopher Combs and Joshua Boardman from Combs Waterkotte discuss everything you need to know about Illinois sex crime charges, including sexual assault, sexual abuse, rape, and more.
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Interview Transcript
Scott Michael Dunn: Can you be charged with a sex crime without physical evidence in Illinois?
Christopher Combs: Of course, and that doesn’t even have to be in Illinois. That can be any state. And when you mean evidence, your question was can you be charged without evidence?
Dunn: Correct, without physical evidence.
Combs: Without physical evidence, yes. So, everyone these days watching CSI and everything wants the DNA and this and that. But no, oftentimes, and I think Josh will echo this, there’s not physical evidence in a lot of these sex cases. An allegation, a statement is enough. A lot of people that we talk to regarding cases, they’re like, “Well, there’s no evidence against me.” And we have to explain, “Well, there’s not any physical evidence, but a statement is testimony, and testimony is evidence.”
