MASSACHUSETTS PROSTITUTION DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
DEFEND CLIENTS CHARGED WITH PROSTITUTION, SOLICITATION OR PANDERING IN MASSACHUSETTS
The Massachusetts criminal defense attorneys defend clients who are charged with solicitation, prostitution, pandering, keeping a house of ill fame, etc. Our Massachusetts criminal defense attorneys know and understand that many times people may engage in act that they would not normally engage in. Our Massachusetts criminal defense attorneys also realize that if you have been charged with some form of solicitation in Massachusetts or prostitution in Massachusetts and you are convicted you may loose a lot more than your pride. Many of our clients are people who have excellent jobs, families and reputations they have to protect. Our Massachusetts criminal attorneys realize that pleading guilty is not an option to many of our client who been charged with prostitution in Massachusetts or solicitation offenses in Massachusetts. We will defend you and we will use every defense we can put forth on your behalf. In the process of defending you, we will make sure that you are treated with dignity and respect. We will also do our very best to keep you informed about your case and make sure that we try to return any calls to us within eight hours, Monday through Friday. The Massachusetts criminal attorneys of SRIS, P.C. have an office in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. If you wish to consult a SRIS, P.C. attorney to defend you against a charge solicitation in Massachusetts or prostitution in Massachusetts, please simply contact us via e-mail, phone, or by filling out our on-line form. A criminal defense lawyer of SRIS, P.C. will gladly consult with you regarding your matter.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS OFFICE:
101 Federal Street, Suite 1900
Boston, Massachusetts 02110
Phone: 888-437-7747
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The following are some of the solicitation and prostitution laws for the State of Massachusetts. Click on any one of the topics to learn more about them.
PROSTITUTION AND SOLICITATION LAWS IN THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS
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Enticing away person for prostitution or sexual intercourse
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Drugging persons for sexual intercourse
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Inducing person under eighteen to have sexual intercourse
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Inducing minor into prostitution
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Living off or sharing earnings of minor prostitute
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Owner of place inducing or suffering person to resort in such place for sexual intercourse
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Support from, or sharing, earnings of prostitute
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Soliciting for prostitute
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Oath and warrant to enter place for prostitution; detention of person in control and prostitute; recognizance to appear as witness
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Arrest without warrant
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Corroboration of one witness; limitations
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Procuring person to practice, or enter a place for, prostitution; employment office procuring person
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Detaining, or drugging to detain, person in place for prostitution
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Keeping house of ill fame
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Resorting to restaurants or taverns for immoral purposes
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Third conviction of being a common nightwalker
MA Code Section 2. Enticing away person for prostitution or sexual intercourse (top)
Section 2. Whoever fraudulently and deceitfully entices or takes away a person from the house of his parent or guardian or elsewhere, for the purpose of prostitution or for the purpose of unlawful sexual intercourse, and whoever aids and assists in such abduction for such purpose, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment in jail.
MA Code Section 3. Drugging persons for sexual intercourse (top)
Section 3. Whoever applies, administers to or causes to be taken by a person any drug, matter or thing with intent to stupefy or overpower such person so as to thereby enable any person to have sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse with such person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of years not less than ten years.
MA Code Section 4. Inducing person under eighteen to have sexual intercourse (top)
Section 4. Whoever induces any person under 18 years of age of chaste life to have unlawful sexual intercourse shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in a jail or house of correction for not more than two and one-half years or by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.
MA Code Section 4A. Inducing minor into prostitution (top)
Section 4A. Whoever induces a minor to become a prostitute, or who knowingly aids and assists in such inducement, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five, nor less than three years, and by a fine of five thousand dollars. The sentence of imprisonment imposed under this section shall not be reduced to less than three years, nor suspended, nor shall any person convicted under this section be eligible for probation, parole or furlough or receive any deduction from his sentence for good conduct or otherwise until he shall have served three years of such sentence. Prosecutions commenced under this section shall not be continued without a finding nor placed on file.
MA Code Section 4B. Living off or sharing earnings of minor prostitute (top)
Section 4B. Whoever lives or derives support or maintenance, in whole or in part, from the earnings or proceeds of prostitution committed by a minor, knowing the same to be earnings or proceeds of prostitution, or shares in such earnings, proceeds or monies, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than five years and by a fine of five thousand dollars. The sentence imposed under this section shall not be reduced to less than five years, nor suspended, nor shall any person convicted under this section be eligible for probation, parole or furlough or receive any deduction from his sentence for good conduct or otherwise until he shall have served five years of such sentence. Prosecutions commenced under this section shall not be continued without a finding nor placed on file.
MA Code Section 6. Owner of place inducing or suffering person to resort in such place for sexual intercourse (top)
Section 6. Whoever, being the owner of a place or having or assisting in the management or control thereof induces or knowingly suffers a person to resort to or be in or upon such place, for the purpose of unlawfully having sexual intercourse for money or other financial gain, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of five years and a five thousand dollar fine.
The sentence of imprisonment imposed under this section shall not be reduced to less than two years, nor suspended, nor shall any person convicted under this section be eligible for probation, parole, or furlough or receive any deduction from his sentence for good conduct or otherwise until he shall have served two years of such sentence. Prosecutions commenced under this section shall not be continued without a finding nor placed on file.
MA Code Section 7. Support from, or sharing, earnings of prostitute (top)
Section 7. Whoever, knowing a person to be a prostitute, shall live or derive support or maintenance, in whole or in part, from the earnings or proceeds of his prostitution, from moneys loaned, advanced to or charged against him by any keeper or manager or inmate of a house or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, or shall share in such earnings, proceeds or moneys, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of five years and by a fine of five thousand dollars.
The sentence of imprisonment imposed under this section shall not be reduced to less than two years, nor suspended, nor shall any person convicted under this section be eligible for probation, parole, or furlough or receive any deduction from his sentence for good conduct or otherwise until he shall have served two years of such sentence. Prosecutions commenced under this section shall not be continued without a finding nor placed on file.
MA Code Section 8. Soliciting for prostitute (top)
Section 8. Whoever shall solicit or receive compensation for soliciting for a prostitute shall be punished by imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or both.
MA Code Section 9. Oath and warrant to enter place for prostitution; detention of person in control and prostitute; recognizance to appear as witness (top)
Section 9. If a person makes oath before a district court that he has probable cause to suspect that a house, building, room or place is kept or resorted to for prostitution and that a certain person owning or having or assisting in the management or control of such house, building, room or place knowingly suffers another person to be in or upon such place for the purpose of unlawfully having sexual intercourse, said court shall, if satisfied that there is probable cause thereof, issue a warrant commanding the sheriff or his deputy, or any constable or police officer, to enter such house, building, room or place and search for such owner or person in control, and take into custody both the owner or person in control and such other person as may be in or upon such place for such purpose. Said owner or person in control shall be detained for not more than twenty-four hours until complaint may be made against him, and any such other person for a reasonable time until brought before said court to be recognized with or without sureties at the discretion of said court to appear as witnesses before the next or any succeeding sitting of said court. This section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the common law.
MA Code Section 10. Arrest without warrant (top)
Section 10. Nothing in the preceding section shall prevent the arrest and detention without a warrant of any person who, the officer serving said process may have reasonable cause to believe, is violating any provision of this chapter, or is keeping a house, room or place resorted to for prostitution or lewdness, and said officer may upon such search arrest without a warrant any such person, and detain him until complaint may be made against him.
MA Code Section 11. Corroboration of one witness; limitations (top)
Section 11. A person shall not be convicted under sections 2, 4 and 6 upon the evidence of one witness only, unless his testimony is corroborated in a material particular, and prosecution for a violation of any of said sections shall not be commenced more than one year after the commission of the crime.
MA Code Section 12. Procuring person to practice, or enter a place for, prostitution; employment office procuring person (top)
Section 12. Whoever knowingly procures, entices, sends, or aids or abets in procuring, enticing or sending, a person to practice prostitution, or to enter as an inmate or a servant a house of ill fame or other place resorted to for prostitution, whether within or without the commonwealth, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than three months nor more than two years. Whoever as a proprietor or keeper of an employment agency, either personally or through an agent or employee, procures or sends a person to enter as aforesaid a house of ill fame or other place resorted to for prostitution, the character of which on reasonable inquiry could have been ascertained by him, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars.
MA Code Section 13. Detaining, or drugging to detain, person in place for prostitution (top)
Section 13. Whoever, for any length of time, unlawfully detains or attempts to detain, or aids or abets in unlawfully detaining or attempting to detain, or provides or administers or aids or abets in providing or administering any drug or liquor for the purpose of detaining a person in a house of ill fame or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years or in the house of correction for not less than one nor more than two and one half years or by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars.
MA Code Section 24. Keeping house of ill fame (top)
Section 24. Whoever keeps a house of ill fame which is resorted to for prostitution or lewdness shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years.
MA Code Section 26. Resorting to restaurants or taverns for immoral purposes (top)
Section 26. Whoever, for the purpose of immoral solicitation or immoral bargaining, shall resort to any café, restaurant, tavern, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, or other place where food or drink is sold or served to be consumed upon the premises, and whoever shall resort to any such place for the purpose of, in any manner, inducing another person to engage in immoral conduct, and whoever, being in or about any such place, shall engage in any such acts, and any person owning, managing or controlling such place and any employee of such person who induces or knowingly suffers any person to resort to, or be in such place for the purpose of immoral solicitation or immoral bargaining, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
MA Code Section 62. Third conviction of being a common nightwalker (top)
Section 62. If a complaint charges a person with being a common nightwalker, and it is proved at the trial that such person has been twice before convicted of the same offense, such person may be sentenced to the house of correction for not more than two and one half years or if a male, to the Massachusetts reformatory, or if a female, to the reformatory for women.
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