Re: Robbery vs Burglary
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:31 pm
Robbery involves bodily injury or the threat/fear of bodily injury during theft.
Burglary involves entry into "a habitation, or a building (or any portion of a building) not then open to the public" to commit theft (or assault or any felony.)
IANAL but it seems like a criminal breaking into an occupied home stealing the TV from the living room is burglary. If someone wakes up and the criminal runs away with or without the TV it's still burglary. If the criminal tries to fight it becomes robbery.
Burglary involves entry into "a habitation, or a building (or any portion of a building) not then open to the public" to commit theft (or assault or any felony.)
IANAL but it seems like a criminal breaking into an occupied home stealing the TV from the living room is burglary. If someone wakes up and the criminal runs away with or without the TV it's still burglary. If the criminal tries to fight it becomes robbery.