People v. MQ

- This Defendant was charged with felony theft. He was employed as a computer repair technician at a Fortune 500 company and held an MS. He assembled lap top computers from spare parts owned by the company, and sold them illegally on E-bay. He was also a non-US citizen facing deportation, if convicted. The federal investigators with the local police, learned of the scheme, and arranged two controlled buys. Before Salvatore C. Miglore was retained, the Defendant was confronted and confessed. The matter, after a number of pretrial motions, proceeded to trial, where the Defendant was found not guilty on all counts, due to the fact that the State could not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the component parts of the computers in question actually belonged to the victim. So, no inventory markings or identifications were on the items establishing ownership. The Defendant was totally exonerated.