“Expired or not, in the trash or not, it wasn’t the employee’s, and it was theft.”
I represented a guy who was charged with Theft for taking scrap aluminum out of the trash at his employer’s place of business and scrapping it. The jury was out for less than five minutes before entering a verdict of NOT GUILTY, which under the law is absolutely and unqestionably the correct verdict.
An item in the trash is abandoned property, and the former owner no longer has any right to it whatsoever.
You ARE CORRECT SIR!