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That makes no sense. A home burglary where no one's present is non violent. Do you think that should be punished lightly? It causes orders of magnitude less da
by ahtihn 4y ago
That makes no sense.
A home burglary where no one's present is non violent. Do you think that should be punished lightly? It causes orders of magnitude less damage than a lot of financial crime.
- vorpalhex 4y agoBurglary carries a presumption of force.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoPeople steal packages off doorsteps all the time. It requires no force.
- vorpalhex 4y agoNot burglary.
- thedailymail 4y agoYou may be confusing burglary with robbery.
- vorpalhex 4y ago> Burglary is a crime under both the common law and the model penal code. Exact definitions of burglary under the common law vary by jurisdiction though they all criminalize some form of illegally entering a building at night with the intent to commit a crime within. From https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/burglary https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/burglary Typically this means you've broken into a domicile (sometimes lesser charges of Burglary exist for non-domicile, eg a vacant commercial building). If you break into someone's home, at night, while it's occupied, the law presumes you intended to do violence. This presumption is usually correct!
- ahtihn 4y ago> If you break into someone's home, at night, while it's occupied, the law presumes you intended to do violence. Well yes. But I explicitly said "no one's present". And it usually happens during the day where I live, because that's when people work.
- josefx 4y agoThis https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/459/ https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/459/ says that just entering a building with the intent to commit a crime counts as burglary even if no force was required.