kingcuppie
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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? PA
I got charged with theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen proprety
for cashing out a $95 dollar voucher from a slot machine that someone left.
the complaint said the person asked me to watch the machine while they go to the bathroom and i felt the person was never coming back so i cashed it out. It almost feels like entrapment and how can someone just leave their voucher in a machine and be allowed to think no one wil sit there and play with it or take it. and i know, al lthe time peopel sit down to machien where some change is left in it and they arent charged with a crime for playing it or taking it so at what amount doe sit become a crime? and how do they know the person didnt say i could have it or owed me money. for them to just charge me without even interviewing me seems totally unjust.
so I just want to know if i have a good defense , that i thought the person just was never coming back as it was a while they were gone and that i see money left in machine all the time and no one is ever arrested for it.
I got charged with theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen proprety
for cashing out a $95 dollar voucher from a slot machine that someone left.
the complaint said the person asked me to watch the machine while they go to the bathroom and i felt the person was never coming back so i cashed it out. It almost feels like entrapment and how can someone just leave their voucher in a machine and be allowed to think no one wil sit there and play with it or take it. and i know, al lthe time peopel sit down to machien where some change is left in it and they arent charged with a crime for playing it or taking it so at what amount doe sit become a crime? and how do they know the person didnt say i could have it or owed me money. for them to just charge me without even interviewing me seems totally unjust.
so I just want to know if i have a good defense , that i thought the person just was never coming back as it was a while they were gone and that i see money left in machine all the time and no one is ever arrested for it.