UNITED STATES v. MOSES

No. 7042.

339 A.2d 46 (1975)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Demetria MOSES et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 22, 1975.

Rehearing en Banc Denied July 14, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Beizer, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Harold H. Titus, Jr., U. S. Atty., and John A. Terry, Stuart M. Gerson, and Charles D. Pierce, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellant.

Marcia D. Greenberger, Washington, D. C., argued on behalf of all appellees. With her on the brief on behalf of appellees Moses and Smith was Carl R. Fogelberg, Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Washington, D. C. Also on the brief were Ed Wilhite, Washington, D. C., on behalf of appellee Perry, John W. Karr, Washington, D. C., on behalf of appellee Abernathy, and Leona Marx, Washington, D. C., on behalf of appellee Gaines.

Before KELLY, YEAGLEY and HARRIS, Associate Judges.


HARRIS, Associate Judge:

Each appellee was charged with soliciting for prostitution in violation of D.C. Code 1973, § 22-2701.1 Motions to dismiss the informations were filed alleging various constitutional infirmities in the statute, both as enacted and as enforced. A hearing was held in the cases of appellees Moses and Smith; there was no hearing on the other cases. Six months later, the trial court issued a 60-page opinion, ruling...

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