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Article: Armed robbery conviction thrown out Court says lesser offense should have been option
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 3, 1999
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An appeals court panel on Wednesday reversed a Milwaukee man's
armed robbery conviction, saying that a Waukesha County circuit
judge had erred by not allowing the jury to consider a lesser
offense.
Judge Lee S. Dreyfus Jr. should have allowed jurors to consider
theft as a lesser-included charge of armed robbery when deciding the
case of Keith Jones, an appeals court panel in Waukesha ruled.
Jones and Vernon Patterson, also of Milwaukee, were each charged
with party to the crime of armed robbery for the theft of jeans from
a Kohl's Department Store in Delafield on Dec. 21, 1996.
Jones testified at his joint trial with Patterson in May 1997
that he shoplifted jeans from the store and was ...