California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Wilson, B208638, No. BA245377 (Cal. App. 2010):
Section 266h, subdivision (a), provides that "any person who, knowing another person is a prostitute, lives or derives support or maintenance in whole or in part from the earnings or proceeds of the person's prostitution, or from money loaned or advanced to or charged against that person by any keeper or manager or inmate of a house or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, or who solicits or receives compensation for soliciting for the person, is guilty of pimping, a felony,..." Thus, "section 266h can be violated in either of two basic ways: (1) by deriving support from the earnings of another's act of prostitution or (2) by soliciting.'" (People v. McNulty (1988) 202
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