I can think of many scenarios where someone could be convicted of car theft where it's not even remotely related to other violent crime. Young person A (23) dr

I can think of many scenarios where someone could be convicted of car theft where it's not even remotely related to other violent crime. Young person A (23) drives friends home in friends (person B) car after a party as a designated driver. Parents of person B (who own the car) don't like person A and claim it's theft (even though they got the car back with no issues). Person A gets grand theft on his record. because A couldn't afford decent lawyer. Maybe this is contrived - I don't know - I can think of a lot of things that are equivalent to "grand theft auto" but no actual harm was done except for a few miles on the car.