Burglary used in a sentence

Burglary in a sentence as a noun

It's like the mob switching from extortion to burglary, and saying, what, you didn't want us threatening people so we're not – now we're just stealing; what more do you want from us? I guess it's damned if we do, damned if we don't...

Theft is a bad thing but hardly deserving of a life sentence, even with a history of burglary. The economic cost of this crime is at most a few thousand $, probably much less.

> his DNA sample was on record after he had willingly given it to them as part of an investigation into a burglary at his mother's home some years earlier. This is a worrying snippet.

There is something big missing from that summary of Holle: he knew his friends were going to commit a burglary. [1] Without that connection that puts him on the hook for a felony, he wouldn't be facing life for felony ******.

Public defenders are arguably sufficient to defend against what he might plausibly be charged with: burglary, assault, etc.

We know of no express authority to pass laws to punish theft or burglary of the treasury of the United States. Is there therefore no power in Congress to protect the treasury by punishing such theft and burglary?

It's much like how the definition of burglary tools can be so broad that just having duct tape and a screwdriver in your trunk can be considered possessing burglary tools. Just for the sake of slapping another charge onto somebody during an arrest.

The depths of watergate were pretty bad, but most people concentrate on just the burglary. The fact that the president was using government forces as his personal bag men, bribing people with campaign funds, using the IRS to harass political enemies etc.

What he did basically amounted to burglary and over $1M in credit card fraud. 10 years is at the upper end of what I would sentence for those crimes, but it's not out of range -- especially considering that he's relatively unrepentant about the whole thing.

Recidivism rates for violent crimes are at about 60% in the US, and for property crimes such as burglary it's even higher. Prison culture is not a healthy culture, and we take the guilty and steep them in that culture for years and then release them back into society.

You know, when someone is charged with burglary the issue is not that they entered your place through the window rather than by ringing the doorbell, but that they entered without your permission. Try to imagine the outrage that would result if a judge said 'it's your fault for having an insecure window, tough luck.'

If petty burglary is what you are defending against, a disk in a quiet corner of your basement is probably plenty. Being outside of the house protects it equally well against fires/floods/earthquakes/pets too. Protection against burglary is an added bonus.

The primary reason for using detergent as a currency, beyond the fact that the market for stolen Tide is so strong, is that shoplifting carries a far lower penalty than robbery or burglary -theft-. If they were robbing the stores at knife point, or breaking and entering, the risk is significantly higher.

All this hand-wringing is a bit like people expressing horror over the discovery that the CIA sometimes stoops to burglary or deception. I mean, in an ideal world the only way to compromise my password would be to for a beautiful lady spy to seduce me and trick me into revealing it in a moment of passion, but in the meantime it's a safer bet that they'll just try and fish it out of my modem/router/ISP/etc.

Without the court finding that Holle knew his friends were going to commit burglary, the prosecutor could wave his arms all he wanted about how he should have known his friends were scumbags and he should not have lent them even his watch, but the actual legal requirements for felony ****** would have fallen apart.

Quote Examples using Burglary

He's already been convicted and sent to jail twice for burglary and he continues to break into other peoples places and steal their stuff. Poor guy just took a wallet from those rich vacationing golfers. Screw that. If I was there I'd be scared to death. How many times do we let him keep doing this. Stop doing it stupid." stealing tools from a tool shed" - oh he was just riding along. sure he was. already been convicted multiple times for burglary.

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