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Protesters who occupied Stanford University president's office receive felony charges (stanforddaily.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't burglary a legally defined term that require a certain crime to have been commited?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

California's burglary has "petty theft" as one of the signifiers for burglary. All they have to prove is that anything is missing, like a stapler, and then they can charge all of them with burglary.