Posted on 01/23/2013 1:17:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
A woman returning from a cruise vacation is being held in a central Florida jail on a warrant from 1991.
Brevard County Jail records show 41-year-old Robin Hall is being held on an out-of-county warrant. She’ll stay there until she is transferred to Orange County — possibly on Thursday — where she was arrested more than 20 years ago for stealing a pack of cigarettes at a local Wal-Mart. She was 18 at the time.
Hall tells WESH-TV she owes the state $85 in court costs.
“I just want it all to be over so I can go home,” Hall told the station.
She was taken into custody last week after arriving at Port Canaveral from vacation with her family. WESH reports that when authorities checked the cruise ship’s passenger list for terrorists, they found a warrant for Hall.
WESH-TV reports that Hall, who is an architect, designs jet engines for Pratt & Whitney.
Jail records don’t list an attorney.
People who think this is about stealing a pack of cigarettes didn’t read the article, nothing new there.
Is that pic from 1991?
The Statute might apply if she’d never been charged. This looks like it’s probably a shoplifting citation where she signed a promise to appear in court, then didn’t show up. At that point, a warrant issues. The statutory period would have been between the time of the crime, and the court date. When you become a fugitive, the statute’s tolled.
Right on point, as usual.
As an aside, many jurisdictions have limits on extradition, and won’t spend the money to get the fugitive back if some combination of distance and severity of crime isn’t met. Locally, we have cities a hundred miles away that won’t extradite on assault warrants. Apparently Orange’s willing to spend the dough in this case because it’s a short run... or maybe they’re just law and order types.
And what grounds exactly do you believe she has to challenge Wal-Mart on anything? Either your reading comprehension is seriously flawed or you are seriously confused about the law in general.
Ah, how those big brother government databases come back to bite you in the a$$ .... they never forget, once in there, always in there.
Dont knock it. Its gems like these that serve to expose the true intelligence of many posters
Why either/or? I can be both can't I? It should be dismissed for lack of evidence. Just where are those cigarettes anyway? Perhaps she snuck back into the store and returned them. Or sent an anonymous letter reimbursing them for the loss and an apology and the store conveniently "lost" it. Where are the actual people that witnessed this right now? How are their memories? Could they pick her out of a line-up all these years later? I'm no F.Lee Bailey but I pity the company that takes me to small claims court.
No statute of limitations?
Almost forty years ago I parked my car in a parking lot next to a drugstore to pick up a newspaper. The parking lot was owned by a university. It was about 8:00 p.m., and there were no other cars in the lot. I no sooner got out of my car and began walking into the building than a college cop ran out of his car from his hiding place and put a ticket on my window. I never paid the five dollar fine. Sixteen years later when I went back to college to get my degree, I thought they’d have my name flagged. Nobody ever said anything. So I’ve been a criminal scofflaw for almost forty years now. Come and get me coppers. Neaaaaaahhhh!!!!
So why have laws in the first place?
In 200 years, they’ll be making musicals and movies about this.
So the government can make additional revenue? So the government can harass people?
U haz same think as me
Laws with an expiration date. You stole an apple in fourth grade. Should somebody track you down and have you publicly jailed (smile for the papers mugshot) and fined after forty years?
Well, an outstanding warrant is an outstanding warrant, be it for murder or stealing a pack of smokes 22 years ago. Local LEO probably doesn’t have a lot of discretion on this, and the woman *did* fail to appear for her court date.
Still, I feel bad for her in the sense that this might hurt her in the here and now. She’s obviously done alright for herself if she’s a designer in the aerospace industry. Hate to see her career get damaged because of two stupid mistakes (the first being the theft, the second being the failure to appear) when she was a teenager two decades ago.
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