The office of District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is continuing a pattern of seeking felony charges in cases where there’s no chance of succeeding—and in the latest example, a Superior Court judge essentially ordered that a case be dismissed before it went to the jury. That’s very unusual.
The case involves a suspect who stole some coats—and, allegedly, a three-pack of men’s underwear—from Macy’s in December. The suspect, who was fighting a fentanyl addiction, went into the department store and tried to walk out with four jackets, collectively worth $899.
He was stopped right after he left the store and admitted to a security guard that he intended to sell the jackets to a “male on Leavenworth and McAllister streets” who would pay him $100 each, according to an affidavit Macy’s security submitted.
He was cooperative with security and with the cops, and was never involved in any violence. He was unarmed…