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Shoplifting Criminal Defense Attorney Jackson MS.
Need to shoplift can result from absence of funds or simply the adventure. Shoplifting is often viewed as a harmless criminal offense but it brings about penalties jail time and embarrassment. Likewise a shoplifting apprehension and conviction stays on your record and can influence future employment possibilities.
The Mississippi code specifies shoplifting as willfully and unlawfully acquiring any kind of product owned or held available for sale by a seller or store with the intent to take that product without paying. Its usually difficult to sort out attempted theft with an honest blunder so Mississippi law is described. Shoplifting hides the unpurchased product gets rid of unpurchased goods from a store changes transfers or eliminates price tags fastened to the unpurchased product or any type of tag or device used in electronic security of unpurchased goods moves the unpurchased merchandise from one container to another or causes the cash register to show less than the goodss stated price for the unpurchased product.
The evidence readily available to develop cost or ownership of the product consists of where the goods was shown the content of the cost tag or properly recognized photos of the product. The merchant has to testify to the stated price or possession of the goods. They have no reason to lie so their testament can seal your sentence.
Here are the punishment standards:.
Worth of product is $1000 or less: A first or second shoplifting sentence is a misdemeanor with a fine of $1000 or less imprisonment in the county prison for as much as 6 months or both. Both fine and jail time occurs when the court reasons the offender can not be overseen will not submit to therapy or poses a considerable threat to public safety. Otherwise the court can suspend the prison sentence and enforce a 1 year or less probation duration a fine of $1000 or less or both.
If the product value is in between $500-$ 1000 and its a 3rd or more shoplifting sentence the defendant can be guilty of a felony and fined up to $1000 jail time for up to 3 years or both. When the value of the product is in between $1000-5000 its a grand larceny felony which carries as much as a 5-year sentence in the state penitentiary as much as a $10000 fine or both.
Its a felony if the value of product is between $5000-25000 and will be punished as grand larceny and brings a sentence in the penitentiary of up to one decade a penalty of as much as $10000 or both. Its additionally a felony if the goods worth is over $25000 and is likewise punished as grand larceny and prison time of up to twenty years a fine of as much as $10000 or both. Just convictions from the past 7 years are taken into consideration when figuring out the gravity of the crime.
Shoplifting is taken seriously by the State of Mississippi and can cost you money liberty and work. Joey Franks is an experienced shoplifting criminal defense attorney and will certainly work to obtain a result that does not influence your future. Call him at (601) 773-7777.
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