City of Portland v. Levi

Defendant appeals her conviction for loitering to solicit prostitution. Portland City Code 14.24.050. She assigns as error the trial court’s denial of her motions for judgment of acquittal and arrest of judgment. We affirm.

Sometime after 11:00 p.m., a police officer, who was the only witness at trial, observed defendant standing with two other women near a street corner in an area that the officer characterized as a “high vice area” where a “lot of prostitutes” worked. In the past, defendant had admitted to the officer that she was a prostitute. The officer told the women to go home, which…