Filming Using a Camera or Similar Device | I Was Afraid of Being Punished More Severely.

The client who requested consultation on charges of filming using a camera or similar device

The client who requested consultation regarding a case of filming using a camera or similar device was a high school student who had already received protective disposition for a similar hidden-camera incident and had completed the related education.

After the protective disposition, the client had been living while receiving psychiatric treatment and psychological counseling, but not long afterward became the subject of a police investigation on the charge of entering a women's restroom in a commercial building and once again attempting to film.

At the time, the victim, sensing someone's presence, reported it to the police, and the client apologized to the victim at the scene.

The client was worried that having committed an offense again could lead to a heavy disposition.

Accordingly, the client came to a criminal defense attorney in order to respond to the charge of filming using a camera or similar device and to sufficiently demonstrate his current situation and his efforts to prevent reoffending.

Strategy for leniency in a case of filming using a camera or similar device

The criminal defense attorney who reviewed the case of filming using a camera or similar device examined the results of the mobile phone forensics, the police case materials, and the client's prior protective disposition together with his living situation after the incident.

The facts that the client had a record of receiving a protective disposition for a similar past incident and that another incident occurred within a short period after the disposition were unfavorable factors.

Accordingly, rather than arguing that the offense itself was minor, the criminal defense attorney focused on specifically demonstrating that the client was seriously reflecting on his conduct and was in fact continuing his efforts to prevent reoffending.

First, the client apologized to the victim for his conduct and completed compensation for the psychological harm.

In addition, he was continuing the process of correcting his behavior by keeping up psychiatric treatment and psychological counseling and by completing the related education.

The criminal defense attorney organized these circumstances and emphasized that the client had not lived without taking any measures after the offense, but was making efforts to prevent recurrence through treatment, counseling, and education.

Furthermore, he emphasized together that no actually filmed photographs or videos were confirmed in the mobile phone forensics and that the client had cooperated with the investigative agency's request to submit his mobile phone.

He also requested that the fact that the client was a student about to enter university and that his social relationships, such as family, were being maintained, be considered together when assessing the likelihood of reoffending.

As a result, the prosecution issued the client a suspension of indictment conditional upon completion of education.

The client was able to avoid a situation leading to a criminal trial and to continue his studies and treatment while completing the education designated by the prosecution.

Daeryun, Korea's 9th-largest law firm (based on the 2025 National Tax Service VAT filings), reviews case-specific circumstances such as investigation records, digital materials, whether harm has been remedied, and efforts to prevent reoffending in sex crime cases like filming using a camera or similar device, and establishes a direction for response.

In this process, centered on sex crime attorneys and in cooperation with the Digital Forensics Center, and criminal defense attorneys, even already-deleted digital evidence can be recovered and collected.

Therefore, if you are facing a police or prosecution investigation on a charge of filming using a camera or similar device, we recommend that you concretely organize a response strategy through a consultation with a sex crime attorney.



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