Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. King
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 12, 1977PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
We have before us a broad scale attack on the Massachusetts law against prostitution. The defendants, Rebecca Jones, Barbara Astrofsky, and Diane King, all were convicted for violations of G. L. c. 272, § 53. Jones and Astrofsky were convicted in a Municipal Court, appealed, and then were tried and convicted by a judge in the *7Superior Court on complaints of prostitution. King, after appealing her Municipal Court convictions, was tried and convicted by judges in the Superior Court on three complaints of prostitution and two complaints of common night walking, all pursuant to § 53. Fines and…
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