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[–] dotslashme 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is just terrible on so many levels! Even if you decide these people need to be charged, how tf is this considered burglary?

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because they can't charge them with felony trespassing, so it's got to be burglary.

[–] dotslashme 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't burglary a legally defined term that require a certain crime to have been commited?

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

California's burglary has "petty theft" as one of the signifiers for burglary. All they have to prove is that anything is missing, like a stapler, and then they can charge all of them with burglary.