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A few weeks after a retail theft stop, a letter arrives. Law-firm letterhead, a demand for somewhere between one and several hundred dollars, a reference to Tennessee’s civil recovery statute, and a deadline. It reads like a court document and it frightens people into doing exactly the wrong thing. Here is what it actually is. […]
On a first theft charge, the sentence is usually not what people should be worried about. The record is. A theft conviction is a crime of dishonesty, and it is treated differently from almost every other misdemeanor by employers, licensing boards, and courts weighing your credibility. The good news is that Tennessee gives a first […]
The stores around Wolfchase Galleria and the Germantown Parkway corridor generate a steady share of Shelby County’s retail theft cases. The sequence is predictable enough that it is worth laying out, because most of the damage people do to their own cases happens in the first hour — before anyone has been to court. The […]