Georgia Prostitution
Unlike the well-known City of Sin or Las Vegas, Georgia has illegalized prostitution throughout the state. Prostitution can be defined a couple of ways. A person who approaches another person and asks to engage in a sexual act for money is considered prostitution. However, it is also prostitution if the person agrees to the sex act for money and gives the person money or gifts as a result. A prostitution charge carries not only with it embarrassment, but also severe penalties. From jail time to heavy fines to a tarnished criminal record, you don’t want to walk into a courtroom alone to fight your prostitution charge. That’s why you need an experienced Georgia prostitution lawyer.
How can a lawyer help me?
If you have been charged with prostitution, you should immediately discuss your case with a qualified attorney. Perhaps this was your first run-in with the law. Your lawyer can use that to your advantage to have your charge reduced. Or maybe you were really the victim of a sexual crime or were threatened.
You could also have been the victim of what is known as entrapment. A citizen or police officer that is working under cover cannot trick you into engaging in a sexual act with them. For example, a citizen or even a police officer working undercover cannot trap you by saying something like if you have sex with me for money, I’ll be able to afford to pay for my dying child’s surgery. However, law enforcement knows all about entrapment and usually records the exchanging of words.
Don’t be fooled
The Internet, TV or even friends can pass along information that is simply untrue. Police often go on prostitution sting operations to try to catch a person who is willing to perform a sexual act in exchange for money. However, if a person suspects that he or she is the target of a police sting and they ask if they are really law enforcement, police do not have to tell you the truth! Hence the term undercover. So when you hear someone say that police are required by law to tell you who they are if you ask, don’t believe them because it’s just not true!
