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In Georgia, prostitution is an administrative offence — Article 172³ of the Code of Administrative Offences prescribes for it a warning or a fine, not a criminal penalty. That distinction is the foundation of the defence strategy: administrative proceedings demand their own rules — the lawfulness of the protocol, the evidence, the appeal deadlines — and it is precisely in those rules that the possibility of changing the outcome lies. The mildness of the sanction does not mean the procedure may be ignored: an entry in the administrative record is as real as any other, and the repetition window attaches to it directly. At the same time, the article carries a special note — the release of certain persons from administrative liability — and that norm is the defence's strongest instrument.