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Criminal Law Keyed to Kennedy
People v. Lauria
Citation:
251 Cal.App.2d 471 (1967)Facts
The defendant owned an answering service business. Officers were investigation call-girl activity, and focused their attention on three prostitutes actively using the defendant’s telephone answering services. The defendant defended his service.
A few weeks later, the three prostitutes and the defendant were arrested. The defendant stated that other answering services had 60 to 70 prostitutes on its board while his own had only 9 or 10, and that he kept separate records for known or suspected prostitutes for the police. However, his service did not tell the police about the activity as long as the prostitutes paid their bills. He admitted that he knew that some of his customers were prostitutes.
The defendant was indicted for conspiracy to commit prostitution. However, the trial court set aside the indictment. The People appealed.
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