DE · jury_instructions
Del. P.J.I. Crim. No. 11.841B(a)
Theft: Organized Retail Crime
THEFT: ORGANIZED RETAIL CRIME
In order to find Defendant guilty of Theft: Organized Retail Crime, you must
find the State has proved the following three (3) elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
(1) Defendant took or exercised control over retail merchandise;
(2) Defendant acted to deprive a person or business of retail merchandise, or
received stolen property, in quantities not normally purchased for personal use or
consumption; and
(3) Defendant acted intentionally to appropriate or resell the merchandise.
“Intentionally” means it was Defendant’s conscious objective or purpose to
take the motor vehicle.
"Appropriate" means to exercise control over someone else’s property
permanently or for such an extended period of time so as to obtain a major part of its
economic value.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.delaware.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
- Edition
- crim-2022-03-14
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