Plain-clothes members of Howard County police?s Vice and Narcotics Unit sat in District Court on Wednesday ready to testify against their highest-profile prostitution bust of the year.

But Brandy Britton, 43, the ex-University of Maryland, Baltimore County women?s studies professor accused of performing acts of prostitution out of an Ellicott City cul-de-sac home, never gave them the chance.

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