Walk It Through: The Jacket
Stealing graded by value, an arrest on view, and expungement one year on.
A college student walks out of a department store wearing a jacket that was never paid for, and an officer standing by the exit sees it.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One jacket and one conviction. Felony stealing, the excluded offenses, and three prior stealing offenses are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- InfractionAn offense carrying a fine of up to four hundred dollars.
- Search warrantA warrant identifying what is to be searched for and the place to be searched in enough detail that the officer can readily tell what and whom, executed only by a peace officer.
- Class D misdemeanorThe lowest misdemeanor class, carrying a fine of up to five hundred dollars and no term of imprisonment in the table.
- StalkingPurposely following or disturbing someone through a course of conduct with no legitimate purpose, with a threat or while violating an order of protection. In the first degree, a class E felony.
- StealingMissouri's word for theft: appropriating someone else's property or services to deprive them of it, without consent or by deceit or coercion.
- ExpungementSealing the records of an offense on petition, at least three years after completing the sentence for a felony, or one year for a misdemeanor.