Petty Theft PC 484(a)- ALL CHARGES DISMISSED

Police report alleged that client was took a T-shirt from a Target Department Store and removed the tags from it, put the t-shirt on her son in a stroller, and attempted to push her son in the stroller out of the store without paying for the t-shirt. We argued that the client was 57 year old woamn who had no prior charges, and did not intentionally attempt to take the item from the store but merely forgot that she had left the T-shirt on the boy. The D.A. dismissed the case. There will be no public record of the offense.