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Pimping, Pandering and Pilfering

By Neil Shous, Esq.

If you?re a cop hoping to make a pimping charge stick, you might not want to pilfer drugs from the evidence room. Such a move might discredit your testimony in the eyes of the jury. It just happened in Contra Costa County, where prosecutors were forced to dismiss charges against a suspected madam after the state?s star witness ? a California Department of Justice agent ? was charged with multiple counts of theft for allegedly stealing methamphetamines, marijuana and prescription pills from evidence lockers. And if you?re a prosecutor who wants to charge a pimp with pandering ? where the target appears already to be a prostitute ? you might want to wait a few months until the state high court issues its opinion on whether the "to become a prostitute" language in California Penal Code Section 266(i) includes ?changing management...continue to full post

Full post as published by California Criminal Defense Blog on March 23, 2011 (boomark / email).