{"id":883,"date":"2011-10-14T12:02:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/?p=883"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T19:34:00","slug":"no-criminal-record-for-price-tag-switching-and-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/no-criminal-record-for-price-tag-switching-and-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"No Criminal Record for Price Tag Switching and Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"

My client entered a guilty plea to a Theft<\/a> charge after she was apprehended in a department store by a security guard who had been following her around the store for some time and who noticed her switching price tags on several items. \u00a0A search of B.P.\u2019s purse revealed a price gun and a large number of price tags. \u00a0An employee at the store who saw my client get arrested also claimed that she had switched the tag on a high priced item sometime the year before but that she had left the store before the theft had been discovered. \u00a0My client had originally been charged with that historical theft as well but I successfully convinced the Crown that there was no reasonable prospect of conviction on that charge since the store employee had no idea when in the last year the theft had occurred. \u00a0At the sentencing hearing, I successfully convinced the judge that, in my client\u2019s circumstances, a conditional discharge was appropriate. [NO CRIMINAL RECORD]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My client entered a guilty plea to a Theft charge after she was apprehended in a department store by a security guard who had been following her around the store for some time and who noticed her switching price tags on several items. \u00a0A search of B.P.\u2019s purse revealed a price gun and a large number of price tags. \u00a0An employee at the store who saw my client get arrested also claimed that she had switched the tag on a high priced item sometime the year before but that she had left the store before the theft had been discovered. \u00a0My client had originally been charged with that historical theft as well but I successfully convinced the Crown that there was no reasonable prospect of conviction on that charge since the store employee had no idea when in the last year the theft had occurred. \u00a0At the sentencing hearing, I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[24,48,53],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}