Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:47 PM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: >C., > > > Yes, but remember you will be putting a teenage > >I don't believe we know she was a teenager. It was said she was a "young >girl", and that can mean 20's, depending on how old you are. Point taken. > > mother in jail > >I don't believe anyone was suggesting jail. I'm not an attorney but I imagine theft of $4,000+ worth of anything is grand theft and a felony. Even so, maybe she wouldn't go to jail but people certainly go to the stripey hole for less. > > ...all over a camera that has been returned. > >Hum. "returned". She was caught trying to pawn off stolen goods, and it >was taken from her at that point in time. I guess it was returned in some >sense of the word, but certainly NOT by her own doing. I did not post returned by the perp. Please don't put ASCII into my keyboard. > > Through the veil of distance, I have a feeling the cop/judge in > > charge knew > > exactly what they were doing when they processed the case. > >I wasn't aware the case had been "processed" to any end, as it was stated >that the DA's office was "surprised that she'd only been given a ticket" >given the value of the gear. So, the cop/judge etc. didn't have complete >info apparently. The only thing that was relayed, as far as I read, was a >"ticket" was issued...and she was remanded to "some sort of counseling >program for treatment". Semantics. Someone wrote a ticket so they 'processed' the case or whatever you want to call it. My point, which I thought I explicitly stated, was that the cop/judge/whoever issued the ticket/processed/whatever, may well have known that the value of the goods pushed this crime into felony range but chose to ignore/overlook/playdumb/whatever because they thought the social impact on the kids was greater than the value (what value is also debatable) of full prosecution for theft of a camera. If it had been the latest of a string of similar offenses, perhaps the outcome would have been different. There's no way to tell given the (lack of) information. Again, as stated, this is not my opinion of a proper course of action, simply a possible explanation for why the woman was simply given a ticket. Personally, I assure you, I am not known for my leftward leanings or a soft stance on crime as attested by my giant metal box chock full of long and short oily black things that I am licensed to carry in public and that make the neighbors nervous when they come over to borrow tools. C. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html