Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Something along the same lines; This summer, at an Air Force base in California, a number of anti-war protesters were arrested for civil disobedience. Trespassing was the basic charge for most of the protesters. A few, which had been arrested previously at the same location, faced probation violations. Because of that previous arrest, one of the individuals received three years in prison for the subsequent act. Slobodan Dimitrov Bryan Caldwell wrote: > Things change a bit if our fictional Starbucks photographer has previously > been successfully prosecuted for trespassing at the same location. As part > of a successful prosecution, he or she would probably have been probably > ordered by the court to stay away and placed on, at least, informal > probation (again, there can be slight differences from jurisdiction to > jurisdiction). Then, a subsequent incident is no longer just trespassing, it > becomes disobedience of a court order and a violation of probation. > Trespassing is crime for which the penalties are initially rather light, but > can escalate rather quickly upon subsequent offenses. > > Again, as simple as I can make it. The owner of a Starbucks is no different > - has no greater or fewer rights - than any other property owner. > > Bryan > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html