Woman hit with 21 charges of prostitution just as Masters gets underway
[URL]http://wncn.com/2016/04/09/woman-hit-with-21-charges-of-prostitution-just-as-masters-gets-underway/[/URL]
The woman with the 21 charges
What did they catch her doing? It appears that she's been arrested for placing 21 backpage ads? No sting? Just a warrant to search her place? And seriously they actually confirmed her IP address for a friggen misdemeanor? It all doesn't make sense. It's like someone has a vendetta against her. Totally sucks.
Advertisment is not an offer
A teacher once said that a contract needs some basic features to be binding: Offer, Acceptance, and consideration.
An advertisement is not an offer. It is merely an advertisement.
I know you can't advertise drugs but if you did, LE would need to catch you actually selling the drugs in your possession to make a case for possession with intent to distribute.
The news reporting is either poor or the cops just want to make a spectacle of her. There is no way they make prostitution charges stick based on the report.
[QUOTE=LongSlide;2913065]It apparently IS illegal to advertise. But I suspect only if you've been pinched before.
Case note. About 6 or 7 years ago, there was a provider working out of her apartment in Framingham. She was young and inexperienced. Advertising on CL and doing incalls out of her place. Well, it didn't take long for the cops to catch up with her. She was arrested and charged with, amongst other things, prostitution Well, long story short, she made bail and was released that evening. Early the next morning, she answers her door and finds the cops standing there with cuffs in hand. They arrested her again. Right on the spot!
Apparently, (according to her, at least) the ad she paid for on CL was for more than for one day. And it automatically "re-listed" itself. That was good enough for them to re-arrest her.
Of course, we don't know the whole truth. But my guess is that she must have been already told by the court NOT to advertise.
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Very funny story. It makes you think. LOL, WTF
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