507 So. 2d 769 - K.C. v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “[a]n individual who resists the reasonable effort of a law enforcement officer, merchant, merchant’s employee, or farmer to recover merchandise or farm produce which the law enforcement officer, merchant, merchant’s employee or farmer had probable cause to believe the individual had concealed or removed from its place of display or elsewhere and who is subsequently found to be guilty of theft of the subject merchandise or farm produce is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, ... unless the individual did not know, or did not have reason to know, that the person seeking to recover the merchandise or farm produce was a law enforcement officer, merchant, merchant’s employee, or farmer. (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 524 So. 2d 658 - K.C. v. State