Okay, I know this is a naive question, but I'm having to learn a lot quickly about the legal system, and am genuinely looking for perspective. For context, I'm facing a first-offense shoplifting charge (less than $30 amount), that, as I now understand it, I cannot possibly defend against. My...
Thanks, shrinkmaster, for your reply. I've actually just been reading your other posts on this website, and they've been very helpful! I do (now) get that I shouldn't have requested police, but at the time I had no notion of LP's or any of the rest, and I just felt really unsure of what was...
On Friday afternoon I went to [Large Chain Grocery Store], bought a couple of weeks worth of groceries at the self-checkout, and, it turns out, left ~$29 of assorted food-stuffs (see list below) unpaid for in the cart. Very soon after moving on toward the store entrance I was stopped by a very...