California Court of Appeal

Conviction for pandering is reversed where: 1) the Penal Code provision defendant was charged with violating stated that pandering occurs when defendant, "[b]y promises, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, causes, induces, persuades or encourages another person to become a prostitute"; and 2) the evidence was undisputed that the young woman defendant was accused of "inducing" was already a prostitute.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/22/2009
• Published 01/22/2009

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Terrence Verson Scott, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Barry Carlton and Elizabeth A. Hartwig, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.