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COMMONWEALTH v. KING

374 Mass. 5 (1977)

372 N.E.2d 196

COMMONWEALTH vs. DIANE KING (and six companion cases.).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 12, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence D. Shubow (Kathleen M. Allen & Joan C. Schmidt with him) for the defendants.

Andrew P. Hier, Assistant District Attorney (George E. Foote, Jr., Special Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

David Rossman, for Boston University Student Defender Program, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

HENNESSEY, 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 Superior Court on complaints of prostitution. King, after appealing her Municipal...

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