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Courts have ruled that robbery is not necessarily violent. If you walk into a bank and say "Excuse me, could I trouble you for a moment of your time? Please han
by jxf 6y ago
Courts have ruled that robbery is not necessarily violent. If you walk into a bank and say "Excuse me, could I trouble you for a moment of your time? Please hand me all the money in the safe", that's not violent: no threat is made, no gun is brandished, and so on. (It is still a robbery, of course.)
https://blog.federaldefendersny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/15-1518_opn.pdf https://blog.federaldefendersny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/...
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- macspoofing 6y agoAre you being facetious? Because that is the biggest load of crap I've heard. There is no such thing as a non-violent bank robbery. The only reason why a bank teller would acquiesce to the demand, as polite as it is, is because there is a threat of violence. If the teller was guaranteed that no violence would occur if they denied the request, they would tell the would-be-robber to take a hike.