Sex-for-World Series tickets conviction tossed

(CBS/AP) It took extra innings, but it appears authorities have swung and missed in their bid to convict a woman accused of offering sexual favors for World Series tickets.

An appeals court on Tuesday overturned Susan Finkelstein's attempted prostitution conviction.

Authorities had alleged that Finkelstein met with an undercover Bensalem, Pa., police officer in October 2009 and offered to perform sexual acts in exchange for tickets to tickets to see the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees.

Finkelstein was tried in Bucks County Court last year. She was acquitted of prostitution but convicted of attempted prostitution.

The state Superior Court ruled Tuesday that since Finkelstein was cleared of the more serious prostitution count, she could not be convicted of attempted prostitution.

In 2009, Finkelstein told CBS' Early Show that she was simply trying to score tickets online, as she had in the past, so she put an ad in Craigslist. The ad had some apparent double entendres. It described, in part, a "gorgeous, tall, buxom blonde ... in desperate need" of the tickets.

"I wanted to get Series tickets I could afford," she said. " ... I work in communications and PR... I wanted my ad to stand out" among ones soliciting customers for merchandise ... "Why not make it fun and witty?"

Hers definitely stood out--but it was the police who took notice.

On Tuesday, her attorney says Finkelstein is "elated" by the ruling.

It's not clear whether prosecutors will appeal.