P. v. Watkins
Defendant Edward Leonard Watkins and acquaintance Jaquann Garrett were pimps. One underage girl who Garrett pimped was Faith. Faith would prostitute herself in Oakland and Stockton, and it was Garrett who encouraged her, dropped her off at the streets where she prostituted herself, and took half her earnings. Sometimes defendant and two other prostitutes named Kream and Cherry were with Garrett and Faith in the car. Kream and Cherry also prostituted themselves on the streets of Oakland, and they gave their earnings to defendant. On one occasion (resulting in the charged acts), they all took defendant’s car to Sacramento where Faith, Kream, and Cherry were going to prostitute themselves on Watt Avenue and defendant and Garrett and would “get [the] money.†Later that day, Faith, Kream, and Cherry used a motel room defendant had rented for prostitution. Defendant and Garrett were arrested in the parking lot of the motel.
Defendant was charged with both pimping and pandering.[1] A jury found defendant guilty of pimping Faith (on a theory he aided and abetted Garrett), pandering Kream, and attempting to pimp Kream.
Defendant appeals from the resulting conviction, raising contentions relating to the instructions and his presentence credits. Finding no merit in these contentions, we affirm.
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