State v. DeVere

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of inducing a person under age 18 to practice prostitution, Minn.St. 609.32, subd. 2(1), 1 and was sentenced by the trial court to a 10-year prison sentence with execution stayed on condition that defendant abide by the terms of her probation, which included that she serve time in the workhouse. Defendant raises a number of issues on this appeal from judgment of conviction, specifically, the constitutionality of the statute, the admissibility of certain evidence, the propriety of the prosecutor’s closing argument, and the sufficiency of the…