I can't believe this thread got this big over something this simple. Whether you think it's right or wrong, a jury isn't ever going to give the thief any lenie

I can't believe this thread got this big over something this simple. Whether you think it's right or wrong, a jury isn't ever going to give the thief any leniency here. I believe in some European countries there are professional juries? Perhaps Germany? We don't have that here. It's just people off the street and they have no legal training and they go with their gut feeling quite often and they DEFINITELY will in a case this simple. If the thief's apartment was burned down or he was murdered or got beat up or something like that as a result of the notoriety, then there may be a case. But not because of some public humiliation or something related to privacy matters. This is just the way juries work in the US.