 Hi, I'm David Cantor with the Law Offices of David Michael Cantor and today I'm going to talk about the charge of prostitution in Arizona. Now under Arizona revised statute 13-3211 or 13-3214 or their city code, for example Phoenix has code 23-52, prostitution is defined as knowingly, intentionally offering sexual contact for money or something else of value, such as drugs. Now in these cases the defendant with what I'm talking about is the accused prostitute and the John is the solicitor. Now that's called solicitation of prostitution. That is a different crime than prostitution and we have a separate page on our site dmcantor.com where you can look up solicitation of prostitution if you were the John who was arrested. Now for somebody who's committing prostitution or offering to sell their body for money, a first defense minimum is 15 days in jail. Second defense is 30 days in jail, third defense is 60 days in jail, fourth defense is 180 days in jail. Those are all minimums. Defenses, entrapment, entrapment is where let's say somebody is a masseuse or an escort or a dancer and they're offered a lot of money, something that would overbear their will and they say okay, did they undercover cop, wow that's a lot of money, okay I'll do that, then you can argue for entrapment and that's been a very successful defense for us. There's also, there's what's called jumping the gun. That's where somebody says hey you know I'm an escort, let me come over, oh if I give you money will you make me happy, sure you'll be happy. She comes over, walks in the door and there's an undercover officer at a hotel room and he arrests her immediately. Well there's been no exchange of money, there was no agreed upon sex act and the officer jumped the gun. The escort could have been talking about just dancing or going out as an escort. Now common defenses include Miranda rights violations, coerced statements, denial of right to counsel, that's where you ask for a lawyer and they wouldn't get you one. Fingerprints, for example on the money, if your prints aren't on the money we can argue wait a second, no money was exchanged. Inditia prostitution, that's condoms, lube, things like that, if none of that was found we can argue hey wait a second, there's no indicia. Bad search warrant, coerced statements of the Johns where they go to the John and they say hey you better tell me that this girl you picked up was a prostitute, otherwise we're going to arrest you too, well that's a coerced statement. And just plain sloppy police reports, we see that all the time. So if you were a loved one who's been charged with solicitation of prostitution or prostitution give us a call for a free initial 30 minute consultation that doesn't cost you anything to meet with us. We have many attorneys who are excellent at this, multiple certified criminal law specialists and we'd love to help you out. I look forward to hearing from you soon.