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Title: Social justice warrior Edith Macias might be charged with a felony for stealing someone’s Trump hat
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URL Source: https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2017/10/06/edith-macias/
Published: Oct 6, 2017
Author: Dan from Squirrel Hills Blog
Post Date: 2017-10-06 07:20:56 by A K A Stone
Keywords: None
Views: 1745
Comments: 12

n the video below, which was recently filmed at UC Riverside, social justice warrior Edith Macias spends nine minutes explaining why she stole a Trump hat right off the head of a Trump supporter.

Macias takes the hat to campus authorities, under the belief that they will take her side.

But they don’t. Instead, they take the side of the hat owner, get him his hat back, and call the campus police.

Originally, the owner of the hat was not planning to press charges.

However, after Macias put a video online where she encouraged other people to steal people’s Trump hats, the owner of the hat changed his mind, and is pressing charges. Macias could be charged with a felony.

Meanwhile, Macias continues to claim that she is the victim. And her friends are demanding that the school pay for a safe place for her and her family to live, as well as pay for the cost of her current residence.

I’m no legal expert. At first, I thought that a felony charge seemed kind of severe for stealing someone’s hat. However, the fact that Macias has gone online and incited other people to steal people’s Trump hats makes me have no problem with her getting a felony charge. She still shows no remorse for what she has done, and, on the contrary, seems to be quite proud of it. That’s a shame. I think she just ruined any chance she had of living a decent life, or getting a college education.

If she is convicted, I hope her sentence is to write a 500 word essay on why it’s wrong to steal other people’s personal property. And then the essay should be put online for everyone to see. I think that would be a much more appropriate sentence than prison, especially for a first time, non-violent offender. Besides, it would be cruel and unusual punishment for the other prisoners if they were forced to live with her.

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#7. To: A K A Stone (#0)

At first, I thought that a felony charge seemed kind of severe for stealing someone’s hat.

Yes. But this wasn't stealing.

Stealing (theft) is taking property that is not yours and is most often a misdemeanor. Robbery is theft accomplished through the use of physical force against another and is almost always a felony.

This was a robbery. Press charges and watch her squirm.

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#12. To: misterwhite, A K A Stone (#7)

http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/nonpub/A133399.PDF

People v. J.M., Ct. App. Calif., 1st Dist., Div. 5, A133399 (28 Aug 2012)

In California, it is robbery if either the taking, or the carrying away, was effected by threat or fear. In J.M., it was a simple snatch and go. The taking was effected without touching the victim. Fear or intimidation did not aid the taking by sudden snatching. In the context of robbery, fear imports apprehension rather than fright.

However, to avoid a robbery conviction, the perp must also show that fear or intimidation did not aid the carrying away. In J.M., the victim testified that she did not pursue the perp "[b]ecause he ran really fast." She did not attribute fear as playing a role. Citing this, the court found that it was not robbery.

In the case of our hat snatcher, it is not a simple snatch and go. She hung around and taunted the victim. Why did he make no attempt to take his hat from her? What induced him to submit to her taking away of his hat? If he says he feared combat with a mad woman, or attributes his submission to some apprehension, the crime is converted from grand theft to robbery during the taking away of the MAGA hat. It is a felony, the value of the hat notwithstanding.

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The victim demonstrated for the juvenile court that she was “holding the phone in her right hand [with] her fingers on the bottom part of the phone and her thumb . . . on the top of the phone . . . .” Her right arm was bent, and she was “holding [her] phone kind of close to [her] chest area . . . ,” with her hand covering more than half of the phone. The suspect wrapped his hand around the top of the phone, grabbed it, and ran. When he grabbed the phone, he did not touch the victim’s hand or any part of her body, and her arm did not move at all. The victim stated she was scared “[b]ecause I don’t know what happened.”

The victim did not pursue the suspect “[b]ecause he ran really fast.” The victim noticed his build and clothes; he was wearing a black jacket and blue jeans. The lady sitting next to the victim helped her call the police.

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DISCUSSION

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The Juvenile Court’s Robbery Finding J.M. contends the evidence is not sufficient to support a finding that he committed robbery. In evaluating this contention, we “must review the whole record in the light most favorable to the judgment below to determine whet her it discloses substantial evidence—that is, evidence which is reasonable, credible, and of solid value—such that a reasonable trier of fact could find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” (People v. Johnson (1980) 26 Cal.3d 557, 578.) “[T]he relevant question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.’ [Citation.]” (Id. at p. 576, quoting Jackson v. Virginia (1979) 443 U.S. 307, italics omitted.) In making this determination, we “‘presume every fact in support of the judgment the trier of fact could have reasonably deduced from the evidence.’” (People v. Wilson (2008) 44 Cal.4th 758, 806.)1

Penal Code section 211 sets forth the elements of robbery: “Robbery is the felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another, from his person or immediate presence, and against his will, accomplished by means of force or fear.” Robbery consists of two components; gaining possession of the victim’s property and carrying it away. (People v. Cooper (1991) 53 Cal.3d 1158, 1165.) In order to support a conviction for robbery, the taking, either the gaining possession or the carrying away, must be accomplished by force or fear. (People v. Gomez (2008) 43 Cal.4th 249, 257.) In the absence of force or fear, a taking from the person is grand theft, not robbery. (People v. Morales (1975) 49 Cal.App.3d 134, 139.)

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1 The same standard of review applies to a claim of insufficiency of the evidence in juvenile proceedings involving criminal acts and adult criminal trials. (In re Roderick P. (1972) 7 Cal.3d 801, 809.)

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J.M. contends the evidence was insufficient to establish the elements of robbery because it does not support a finding he used force or fear to take the victim’s iPhone. We agree. There is no evidence that, to accomplish the taking here, J.M. used the force required to establish robbery. “‘[S]omething more is required than just that quantum of force which is necessary to accomplish the mere seizing of the property.’ [Citation.]” (People v. Burns (2009) 172 Cal.App.4th 1251, 1259 (Burns), quoting Morales, supra, 49 Cal.App.3d at p. 139.) “‘[W]hen actual force is present in a robbery, at the very least it must be a quantum more than that which is needed merely to take the property from the person of the victim . . . .” (Burns, at p. 1259.) There is no evidence here that J.M. used force beyond that necessary to take the victim’s iPhone from her hand. Indeed, she stated that, when J.M. grabbed her phone, he did not touch her hand or any part of her body and did not even cause her arm to move. (Compare People v. Mungia (1991) 234 Cal.App.3d 1703, 1706-1707 [evidence sufficient for robbery although the victim did not see or hear the defendant before he took her purse, where he shoved her and in a separate motion, took her purse off her shoulder].)

Nor is there any evidence that reasonably supports an inference J.M. used fear to accomplish the taking. The evidence demonstrates only that he appeared suddenly, grabbed the phone from the victim’s hand, and ran away. There is no evidence he threatened or intimidated the victim or that the victim surrendered her phone because she was afraid. Indeed, she stated that she did not see J.M. before he took her phone. She said the incident scared her “[b]ecause I don’t know what happened.” Being startled, however, does not appear to satisfy the fear requirement for robbery. (Pen. Code, § 212 [defining “fear” as it is used in Pen. Code § 211 to mean fear of an unlawful injury].)2 There is no evidence that J.M. used the victim’s fear of such injury to accomplish the taking or to prevent the victim from recovering her phone. Although she acknowledged

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2 Penal Code section 212 states: “The fear mentioned in Section 211 may be either: 1. The fear of an unlawful injury to the person or property of the person robbed, or of any relative of his or member of his family; or, 2. The fear of an immediate and unlawful injury to the person or property of anyone in the company of the person robbed at the time of the robbery.”

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that she was “still scared at that time,” she did not attribute her decision not to pursue J.M. to her fear. When the prosecutor asked her: “[W]hy didn’t you run after the person that took your phone?” she responded simply: “Because he ran really fast.”

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