A White Plains, New York robbery case was open and shut, all thanks to a resourceful college student and Back To My Mac. An unfortunate student (who happened to work at the local Apple Store) and her roommates returned to their apartment to find it ransacked and burgled. The stolen items included a Macintosh laptop, which happened to have Back to My Mac installed. Days later, the victim received a call from a friend, asking her if she was online, she replied no, but seized the opportunity to get her stuff back. Using a work computer, she went online and logged into the Back to My Mac service, proceeding to open Photo Booth and getting a snapshot of the first perp. Then, searching through the computer, she found pictures of the other burglar. The victim did not recognize the men, but her roommate recognized them from a recent party. She then took those pictures to the local police, who made arrest within a day. Almost all of the $5,000 in tech goodies, including her computer and two plasma TVs were returned.
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Nice story. One small correction regarding the opening sentence:
Though citizens commonly use the terms burglary and robbery interchangeably, they are not the same offense. A burglary involves entry to a premises with the intent to commit another offense, which may—and most frequently does—involve theft. In most jurisdictions, the fact that a premises is occupied does not matter, though it can be an aggravating factor.
A robbery occurs only when a demand, threat or forcible compulsion is involved in the commission of a theft or burglary, and there must be a party present to constitute the offense of robbery. Robbery is necessarily a far more serious offense than either burglary or theft, and has the potential for violence, which neither of the other offenses alone do.
Thanks for the clarification
How does assault differ from battery?
Generally, assault is verbal and battery is physical. The term assault is commonly used to describe both the threat of the use of force and the application of force itself. If I threaten to hit you, that constitutes assault in most jurisdictions. If I hit you having made a threat to do so, that is both assault and battery, commonly shortened in some places to simply assault.