Arrested for Shoplifting
Have you or a loved one been arrested for shoplifting in Orlando? Learn what your next steps should be in this educational video, then give us a call.
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Have you or a loved one been arrested for shoplifting in Orlando? Learn what your next steps should be in this educational video, then give us a call.
Question:
I was arrested for shoplifting in Orlando, but I didn’t mean to do it. How can you help me?
Answer:
If you’ve been charged with shoplifting in Orlando, Florida, and you didn’t mean to do it, is a situation that we’ve dealt with many times in our career. For example, many years ago we did have a client who was shopping at a local store. She had her children with her. She had a lot of things going on. They were doing their weekly shopping. She was overwhelmed with other things that were going on with her. Unbeknownst to her, someone had put an item in her cart that she didn’t know about and ultimately attempted to leave the store with it. Here it was really no fault of her own that something like this happened.
We were able to successfully defend her in this case. There are different ways that we can do that but the most important is getting an attorney involved right away. We’ve had these situations where if you get someone involved very quickly, they’re able to do their investigation, reach out to the store, reach out to the loss prevention, maybe go over surveillance video, and all of this is going to be critical to be able to negotiate with the store in saying, look, our client had nothing to do with this. Our client didn’t know what was going on. She didn’t put this there. She didn’t know it was there. You really have to have that knowledge to be able to prosecute her. These things have worked and have helped clients in the past so we suggest if you find yourself in a situation where you’re being accused of a theft crime and you had no knowledge of it or didn’t do it to contact an attorney.
More often than not, working with an attorney who works with the store or works with the person that’s accusing you of the theft is going to be successful. If you have the concise plan and you can do it early enough and you have enough support and evidence to defend yourself in these types of cases. We’ve seen it happen many times and to great success. If you find yourself in that situation, please call an attorney who knows how to handle these cases who have dealt with similar situations. If you have any other questions about petty theft or any kind of theft cases in Orlando, Florida, please contact the Victory law firm.
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