City of Yakima v. Emmons

The defendant, Cheryl L. Emmons, appeals a conviction under the Yakima prostitution ordinance.

On March 14, 1978, Ms. Emmons and some friends went to a cafe in Yakima. Earlier in the evening, she had programmed her home telephone to forward her calls to the pay phone at the cafe. Shortly after her arrival, she answered a call and as she was returning to join her friends, the phone rang a second time. Unknown to Ms. Emmons, a police officer working the vice detail had placed the call from a building across the street, while another officer, with the aid of binoculars, observed her answering the…