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COMMONWEALTH v. BROWN

SJC-12529.

481 Mass. 77 (2018)

COMMONWEALTH, vs. JONATHAN E. BROWN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

December 11, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Osborne for the defendant.

Emily R. Mello, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Maura Healey, Attorney General, & Maria Granik, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present (Sitting at Worcester): GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

For over a century the Commonwealth has outlawed living off of or otherwise sharing in money earned by a known prostitute.1 Historically, "pimps or purveyors" have been understood to be the objects of this prohibition, although no definition of either "pimp" or "purveyor" has ever appeared in the statutory...

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