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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 […]
It is the first question almost everyone asks, and it is usually asked at two in the morning. The short answer for a first theft charge in Shelby County is that jail is not the usual outcome — but that answer comes with conditions worth understanding, because several things can change it. What normally happens […]