Posted on 11/24/2012 7:57:23 PM PST by Arthurio
GREELEY, Colo. – A woman was arrested and charged with felony robbery after a scuffle during a late-night Thanksgiving sale at a Greeley Walmart.
The Greeley Tribune reported that 22-year-old Amino Idris faces felony robbery charges after she allegedly knocked down another shopper and took a laptop out of her hands during a door-buster sale at the Walmart Supercenter located at 3103 S. 23rd Ave., in Greeley.
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I am confused at what happened?
My guess would be that her mother went into labor while shopping for supplements.
Either that, or her middle name is “Harm.”
Her name is Amino. If you think she's dumb you should meet her brothers Lysine, Arginine and Tyrosine. We can't tell how dumb her uncle Tryptophan is because he's always sleeping.
She musta been on acid.
Oh, dammit.
Erasmus and Tiger stole my punchlines.
Now I got nothin’.
[maybe she just be amino lady]
The woman from whom it was taken was in legal possession of it at the time it was taken from her. There is a presumption that she will pay for it and the law has a preference for orderly commerce.
The woman from whom it was taken was in legal possession of it at the time it was taken from her. There is a presumption that she will pay for it and the law has a preference for orderly commerce.
Whose personal property was the computer. It was at best the intended future personal property of the person from whom it was taken.
I think further drilling down is needed, as to what constitutes personal property.
And yet shoplifting law generally states that if the customer purposely hides an unpaid-for item from view (though common sense would suggest this probably doesn’t mean burying it under other merchandise in a cart) this constitutes shoplifting. So the person is not free to do whatever he or she wants with it, yet.
No but peacefully adding an item to a shopping cart is legal possession under the presumption one will either pay for it or return it to the shelves.
There needs to be further drilling down into definitions. The right to control an item, even if in a constrained manner, may figure in. However it still could lead to some silly consequences. If we were in a bumper car ride and I pushed you out of your bumper car, did I just rob you of the bumper car? Which we both would have to leave at the termination of the ride we had paid a ticket for?
Gotta parse the words...
“Personal Property” is property actually owned by the victim.
Until it is actually paid for it is “store property” not personal property.
Certainly a better set of charges would include assault and disorderly conduct. A perhaps more apt analogy would be if a waitress delivered the meal you ordered and another diner snatched it off the table and ate it. I think the diner who ordered the meal, even if the other diner was charged, has a valid complaint; admittedly a minor legal complaint
If someone sticks a gun in your face and takes your leased car were you not robbed? The fact that you were not the legal owner of the car is irrelevant when you have legal possession.
The potential buyer was forcefully robbed of an item in her possession intended for purchase
Amino ?
Her nickname is lysergic acid diethylamide
when you have legal possession.
If assault was involved then the assault was a crime but theft did not occur due to the fact that she was in fact simply moving the inventory of the store around within the store until she actually bought it and it became her “personal” property.
‘Possession’ and ‘ownership’ are terms with different legal connotations. She didn’t have legal ownership but she did have legal possession.
The tricky part might be if there were only a certain number of those fried eggs (or whatever) the restaurant had to serve, and all others had to eat something else.
The woman got the opportunity to buy the computer at a ridiculous bargain stolen from her (though Wal Mart may have granted it back) and so at least the value of the bargain vs. the normal Wal-Mart retail price of the unit was stolen. Does that amount to enough to be a “felony” — dunno. That’s beyond my ken.
we’re not going to ask you about the karma involved, tigger
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