Legal Opinion
People v. Shields
California Court of Appeal, 5th District
Decided May 30, 2018No. A149037PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, J.*
*1244I. INTRODUCTION
Shawn Shields (appellant) became the subject of a police investigation after he accepted a request to become a friend on Facebook with a fictional 17-year-old prostitute created by a Solano County detective. The relationship appellant formed with this fictional person led to his arrest and conviction by a jury of three felony offenses: human trafficking of a minor for a commercial sex act ( Pen. Code, § 236.1, subd. (c)(1) )1 ; pandering by encouraging another person to become a prostitute *703(§ 266i, subd. (a)(2)); and attempted pimping a minor over the age of 16 (§§…
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