Judge Postpones Trial of Woman With HIV
- Share via
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.
Sign up for Essential California
The most important California stories and recommendations in your inbox every morning.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
In this episode, we discuss the history here, what lessons were learned — and not — and how that can inform what we we do this time around as we attempt to rebuild Altadena and the Pacific Palisades.
This week’s episode covers the sentencing and future legal proceedings for “The Ketamine Queen” — the doctor who pled guilty to supplying Matthew Perry with ketamine.
This week, “A Matter of Degrees,” hosted by Dr. Leah Stokes & Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, discuss how insurance companies are failing to accommodate for the impacts of climate change.
