Judge Postpones Trial of Woman With HIV
A Compton Superior Court judge has postponed until Monday the pretrial hearing of a 46-year-old woman who is HIV-positive and accused of engaging in prostitution.
Panchita Hall, 46, was charged under a 1988 state law that requires prostitutes who have been told they are HIV-positive to be charged with a felony upon their second arrests.
Hall has six convictions since a court-ordered test in 1995 found she had HIV, records show.
The felony conviction carries a three-year sentence, but a prosecutor plans to ask for an enhanced sentence of as much as nine years.
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