People v. Berger

In People v. Berger (1960) 185 Cal. App. 2d 16, two women worked together as prostitutes out of a hotel in Hollywood. Together they arranged with the defendant to accept customers referred by him from a hotel he operated nearby. Both women engaged in acts of prostitution with a large number of clients the defendant referred. They kept a single ledger and split the proceeds with the defendant. (Berger, supra, 185 Cal. App. 2d at p. 18.) The court determined that each woman was "undoubtedly" the defendant's accomplice as to the crimes pertaining to the other woman. (Id. at p. 19.) Berger relied for its conclusion upon another appellate case that had found a woman liable as a pimp based upon her active participation with a male in pimping for another woman. (Ibid., fn. 3.)