About what? Walmart is the injured party. The store detective may be a witness in the criminal trial, but Walmart per se is not involved.
No, you are still making up facts. You cannot sue for false arrest just because you were acquitted. You have to prove that the store cop had no probable cause to make the arrest . And you have to prove damages. Actual suits for false arrest are still very rare in Va, and rarely successful. You really do not know what you are talking about. But you may have the last word.
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Actually, even if they are found not guilty.they have the duty to affirmatively prove that the store detective lacked probable cause to make the arrest at all.I only took on wrongful arrest cases when I could prove the store detective was lying- like, for example, a video showing that the detective was lying.
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iampops5,
In that last two paragraphs I am not trying to disagree at all.
The law is not in question.
The cost of all of this is the topic. That is why I am saying you are myopic.
The box stores have worked out their costs and they would all totally ignore you (adding in their final analysis).
You are dragging me through how the mechanisms work.
The box stores do not want the legal costs of any of it compared to letting the merchandise walk.
Your points do not matter to any of this. They are moot. Stop personalizing it as if I am making up things. There are lawyers involved and the box stores do not care about $20 items stolen because they insure themselves. In other words you pay for it. Plus a tad because they have moats.
Re: “The insurance will cover it”
It’s not true in general, and is almost never true. Most commercial insurance doesn’t cover shoplifting. It usually covers theft, fire, damage, etc, but “theft” is defined as “ABC merchandise was stolen on MM/DD/YY date, sometime after HH:MM time when we closed for the day”, it is NOT defined as “inventory shows us that 14 of item A, 4 of item B, …, 7 of item Z, walked out the door over the last month”.
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Mark,
You are making things up. Don’t ya love being addressed that way?
Makes for friends.
Seriously I said self insured. It is in the sticker pricing. Those policies have been around for decades before I was born.