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Fifth District: Lesser Includeds

By Matt Conigliaro, Esq.

The defendant in this criminal case argued to the jury that he did not commit robbery -- he committed petit theft and resisting a merchant. Both were lesser included offenses for his robbery charge and both were included on the jury's verdict form, but the jury was not allowed to find him guilty of both. After being convicted of robbery, the defendant appealed on grounds the jury should have been

Full post as published by Abstract Appeal on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).