Posted on 05/03/2016 6:18:59 AM PDT by Rusty0604
A Texas teenager faces a felony forgery charge all because the $10 bill he found on the floor of his high school came up as fake cash on the lunch lady’s counterfeit testing pen when he used it to pay for a ham sandwich and chips.
...the lunch lady turned the $10 bill over to a campus police officer, who later wanted a statement from the teen. The officer called his mother and she said “not without me present,” according to Hunter.
The family also received a “Consent to Deferred Prosecution” form to sign, which essentially places a minor into the juvenile justice system through probation. If probation is successfully completed, the court dismisses pending charges. In March, the Hunter family declined to consent to deferred prosecution.
Alec’s chemistry teacher wrote: “I hope and pray you will please not punish a 15-year-old so harshly that this offense will keep him from obtaining a future career. A teenager often reacts without thinking about the consequences.” She added: “In the corporate and educational careers, one serious offense can make a person unemployable.”
This is likely because college and career ready applications no longer ask if a youth was ever convicted of a crime, they ask if one has ever been charged with a crime other than a traffic offense. A juvenile’s brush with the criminal justice system creates a paper trail ...
In an April 29 email to Hunter, obtained by Breitbart Texas, Fort Bend ISD Superintendent Charles Dupre explained the charge to prosecute Alec was accepted by the Fort Bend County District Attorney’s Office through an administrative referral process apparently triggered when the teen’s mother refused to have her son questioned without a parent present.
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All the changes the US has made in the money for anti counterfeiting purposes is for nought in SEA. Every time there is a design change the norks have their new bills on the SEA market even as American banks are beginning to receive the new officially real ones.
There is a catch to that policy. If you earnestly begin doing that you will start seeing other little things you do that are not quite righteous and you will start to change those things, too. At least that is my experience.
Coins smaller than quarters go into the whirligig things in some of the stores for donating money to “feed the children” or some such cause- for the amusement of small children who are hanging around.
They answered to me a few times when my kids were in school. But of course I pushed the issue and didn’t give up.
A lot of paperwork now asks if you have been arrested or charged instead of convicted. I don’t know how this came to be...my daughter has a job that requires a high level background check and she said her paperwork asked if you had been “investigated” as well. I wonder how you would always know if you had been investigated related to a crime? I guess Hillary could not work in my daughter’s job- right?
So much for innocent until proven guilty. If you want to mess somebody up, just give a false tip on them, huh?
Ct law for example:
Sec. 50-10. Duties of finder. Any person who finds and takes possession of any article of the value of one dollar or more shall report the finding of such article to the police department of the municipality in which he finds such article within forty-eight hours from the time of such finding. The finder of such article shall, at the time of reporting, furnish to the police department the date, time and place of finding, his name and address and a description of the article found, and, within a period of one week from such finding, shall deliver such article to the police department. Any person who violates or fails to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.
I guess.
I would not think this would be legal actually but don’t know if it has been to court.
Yes he should have! I taught my children to turn things into lost and found but many don’t teach that.
I don’t want his life ruined, he is guilty of bad judgement if he picked it up from the floor and tried to spend it, but likely not forgery.
I think there is more to this story. I got a $20 that would not pass marker test from an ATM, the store would not take it but no one hounded me for forgery. I took it to the bank and they said it was real and took it. That was end of story. I am wondering if he really found it or if someone he is connected to is making money? This might be pushed to pressure him into talking.
Yes. I would imagine you could print money as fast as your laser printer would allow. I do believe that some of the scanning and image-manipulation software won’t work on images of US currency.
“Ct law for example:
Sec. 50-10. Duties of finder. Any person who finds and takes possession of any article of the value of one dollar or more shall report the finding of such article to the police department of the municipality in which he finds such article within forty-eight hours from the time of such finding. The finder of such article shall, at the time of reporting, furnish to the police department the date, time and place of finding, his name and address and a description of the article found, and, within a period of one week from such finding, shall deliver such article to the police department. Any person who violates or fails to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.”
Only one problem as I read it — it wasn’t “in the open” — it was in school.
Not his.
Hoss
Anything is possible, but I just don’t think a teenager in Texas that supposedly is a good student is connected to a counterfeiter. If he was, he’d probably be out trying to buy something better than a ham sandwich at the school cafeteria.
An article can sometimes be traced to the owner. Unless someone records the serial number of everyman bill in their ppossessed they are able to prove they did indeed lose it, I agree, it’s a foolish law.
The police department would just keep it as they need the revenue.
Speaking of parties, we were at a relative's party a few years back. My wife was playing poker with a few relatives at a kitchen table. She was winning, with about $45 at her spot. They got up to watch a kid blow out candles on a cake outside. Went back into the kitchen, and the money was gone. No one fessed up, but all the ladies ran to a bedroom and grabbed their purses to keep at their side. It's not just lost money that is found and kept, nowadays people scoop up other people's money and keep it. We still don't know who took the money, but don't trust that relative's kids (or their friends). Then again, it could have been any of the invited relatives or friends. Rule to be learned - take your poker winnings off the table.
I would think so, but anything is possible with kids. I can’t imagine them making such a big deal about it unless there is more to it.
It’s Texas, I know I live here.
So you are not a strong supporter of personal property rights?
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