The trial for 43-year-old College of Liberal and Professional Studies graduate student Susan Finkelstein was rescheduled from yesterday to March 22.
According to Finkelstein’s defense attorney William J. Brennan, the move was purely to accommodate a separate, federal trial he is handling.
However, Brennan said this client will not seek a plea.
“There will be a trial … and a jury will decide,” he said.
Finkelstein is charged with prostitution and attempted prostitution for allegedly offering to trade sex with an undercover police officer for Phillies World Series tickets last October. One of the original charges, promotion of prostitution, was dropped Jan. 29.
“You can be a slut — that’s not illegal,” Brennan argued in court on Jan. 29, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“The charge of promoting prostitution requires a third party, separate from the prostitute and her john, but there was no such third party in my client’s case,” Brennan said in January.
Brennan also said in February that no laws were broken, since no sex occurred and nothing of value was exchanged.
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