Estes
Americannoun
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Wander's lawyer Jordan Estes said he denied all charges, telling Bloomberg: "This is a business dispute dressed up as a criminal case. We look forward to setting the record straight."
From BBC
Shoplifting incidents that escalate are sometimes referred to as Estes robberies, after a legal standard that dates to the early 1980s, when a man named Curtis Estes tried to walk out of a Sears store in Vallejo wearing a down vest and corduroy coat he hadn’t paid for.
From Los Angeles Times
When confronted by an armed security guard in the parking lot, Estes pulled a knife out and threatened to kill the guard, before eventually surrendering.
From Los Angeles Times
Estes was convicted of felony robbery, which was upheld under appeal with the court ruling that “a store employee may be a victim of a robbery even though he does not own the property taken.”
From Los Angeles Times
In the decades since, law enforcement has used the Estes robbery standard to charge shoplifters with robbery even if they didn’t have weapons.
From Los Angeles Times
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