What Am I Facing If I was Charged with Aggravated Sexual Assault in NJ?

Aggravated sexual assault is one of the most serious offenses that we have on the books in New Jersey. If you are convicted of an aggravated sexual assault, you are looking at a minimum of 10 to 20 years in state prison. You must serve 85% of that sentence before you are eligible for parole. To To put that in perspective, if you get the low end of 10 years, you're looking at a minimum of 8.5 years of parole ineligibility. You also will be placed on Megan's Law, and you will be subject to parole supervision for life.

Parole supervision for life will be forever. As being convicted of an aggravated sexual assault, you do not have the ability to make application to come off of parole supervision for life after 15 years. That may change, but for right now, that is the law. It's important to understand that just because you're charged with that offense does not necessarily mean that that is what you are guilty of. The prosecutor's office is required to prove each and every element of that offense before you can be found guilty, and there are numerous ways to defend against this.

Such as the length of time when these accusations were made, the credibility of any alleged victim or any witnesses. So again, it is very, very important that you find an experienced attorney to defend you against these ultimately serious, serious charges.