Posted on 05/03/2016 6:18:59 AM PDT by Rusty0604
There’s going to be PR hell to pay for this school district if charges don’t disappear pretty quick. It’s just west of chi-chi Sugarland and Katy ISDs and people don’t like seeing school kids legally abused. The mom and kid are going to have no problem lining up the best legal counsel. School districts in these parts hate bad PR like vampires hate garlic.
Any time I find money, I always try my best to find the owner.
Trouble is, not a single person has ever been able to verify their ownership by giving me the serial number of their lost bill.
He can’t be charged with forgery unless they show he made the note. He can be charge with passing a forged note if he knew it was forged. People unknowingly pass forged money all the time none of which are charged with a crime. My guess is there might be more details to come.
Given that some don't even know a $2 bill is real money, I'd give the kid the benefit of the doubt, unless it was an obvious fake.
If, as described in the article, the only way the cashier knew it was fake was because of the pen test, then it likely was a reasonable forgery, and I'd be leaning toward dropping all charges. The $100 and $20 bills are usually the forged bills, not really much benefit in forging $10 bills.
Finding the rightful owner of a lost ten dollar bill in a high school would be interesting.
Most high school kids wouldn’t know who is on the $10.
That's what I was thinking: Good luck!
Yes. This is why I always spend a good 3-4 hours per day memorizing all my bills numbers!
Why won’t the mother let the kid tell his story to the police?
But he didn’t. So what is your point?
What the heck is wrong with law enforcement and local/state government lawyers in Texas? This weirdness is not an isolated incident.
When I was growing up if you found money out in the open and there was no one to claim it you got to keep it. It was called finders keepers, losers weepers. It wasnt considered an act of dishonesty or theft. Of course you would ask around if anyone else was nearby. Now if the money was in a wallet that was a different matter altogether but on the ground that was fair game. That they would charge a young kid with a felony for something like this tells us how Gestapoish we have become in 7 years. Can't wait till the evill all-spark steps down from the throne so we can return to a more sane world.
From the article I gather that it was ok with her as long as she was present, which is her right. She didn’t hear anything else until they got the DA letter. Again, that’s what I’m reading.
Wasn’t his money. He should have turned it in to lost and found.
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You don’t get invited to many parties, do you?
Well, I know it's not George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, or Benjamin Franklin. So, I'm going with the guy who was shot and killed by Aaron Burr; Alexander Hamilton.
Depends on where you are and who you are. The alarm clock kid was in Texas.
Lol
A defense attorney would argue that the state of mind required wasn't there because the act wasn't done knowingly or intentionally. Of cousre the new Communists don't care about small important details like that because they enjoy cracking their whip and watching people writhe in pain a little too much.
The insanity of nowadays... Rioters disrupt Trump rallies, DemWit run cities with strict “gun control” are free fire zones, and confused and pervert men can use the ladies room. Media/government could care less... then this? The observations of Ayn Rand come to mind:
“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Party like it’s 1984! (Prince RIP)
Why you should never talk to police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1t3vtr0kxk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au4_EdPwTkE
I must be behind times! What is a counterfeit pen?
I see cashiers use a pen to mark a bill, but just thought marking it showed that the clerk looked closely at it. They used to do it to $50s all the time, but some are now doing it to $20s.
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