People v. Lake

Opinion

THE COURT.*

I

INTRODUCTION

On November 25, 2002, a criminal complaint was filed against appellant, Stephen Mark Lake, alleging a single count of violating Penal Code section 647, subdivision (a), which provides: “Every person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor: Q] (a) Who solicits anyone to engage in or who engages in lewd or dissolute conduct in any public place or in any place open to the public or exposed to public view.”

The case was one of a large number of cases filed as the result of a law enforcement decoy operation targeting…