Democrat DA Orders No More Arrests for Breaking-Entering, Shoplifting, Property Destruction, Etc.

[Ray From Cleveland]

Secretary of Public Safety Thomas A. Turco III started the legal battle with a scathing missive that says Rollins’ unconventional practices could put children at risk, make the opioid crisis worse, and help gang members and ex-cons while also undermining drunken driving and pot laws.

Shopkeepers “struggling” to make a profit could suffer, Turco’s letter states, if Rollins fails to act on shoplifters and thieves who fence stolen property.

You don't have to tell me that. In my suburb, we were loaded with stores and shopping centers. One was nationally known back in the 70's with actor Ted Knight hired to do the commercials.

After the blacks moved in, most all of the stores closed. Our shopping mall is still open, but loaded with trouble and empty stores. K-Mart recently closed up. About two years earlier, Walmart closed up, and there is virtually no place to shop thanks to all the shoplifting that stores or police tried to stop.

The city kept increasing our taxes to make up for lost revenue and property value plunges. We recently got out of the red, but barely.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Not necessarily. This is an opportunity to give responsibility back to the people, to see to their own safety, and security. Less reliance on government to solve ones problems is often times a good thing.

LOL! Yeah, okay. You should move to Boston.

In the rest of the country, the default policy is to prosecute people who commit those crimes, and the only way they are not prosecuted is if a prosecutor gets permission from a senior prosecutor not to prosecute. Rollins has now turned that traditional standard upside down. The default--in Boston--is now *not* to prosecute people who commit those crimes unless a "supervisor" (a more senior prosecutor) directs otherwise.

So... There’s no point in calling the cops for such offenses? Then one is going to have to “save themselves”. As should be. It makes for stronger, freer, more independent people. Quit expecting some government super hero to save you, and solve all your problems.

That would be true if your state supports that.

I have a CCW in my state, but our state strongly supports the victim. You go to these liberal states, they support the attacker. Liberals are the devils angels. They always side with evil over good.

So you kill somebody breaking into your home, you yourself could wind up in prison.

 

[Vastator]

Not necessarily. This is an opportunity to give responsibility back to the people, to see to their own safety, and security. Less reliance on government to solve ones problems is often times a good thing.

LOL! Yeah, okay. You should move to Boston.

In the rest of the country, the default policy is to prosecute people who commit those crimes, and the only way they are not prosecuted is if a prosecutor gets permission from a senior prosecutor not to prosecute. Rollins has now turned that traditional standard upside down. The default--in Boston--is now *not* to prosecute people who commit those crimes unless a "supervisor" (a more senior prosecutor) directs otherwise.

So... There’s no point in calling the cops for such offenses? Then one is going to have to “save themselves”. As should be. It makes for stronger, freer, more independent people. Quit expecting some government super hero to save you, and solve all your problems.

That would be true if your state supports that.

I have a CCW in my state, but our state strongly supports the victim. You go to these liberal states, they support the attacker. Liberals are the devils angels. They always side with evil over good.

So you kill somebody breaking into your home, you yourself could wind up in prison.

People go missing all the time...

 

[Thinker101]

When I first saw this story, I thought it had to be an April Fools joke. But, it is not. Democrat Rachel Rollins, the DA of Suffolk County, which includes Boston, has ordered the police to stop arresting people for breaking and entering, destruction of private property, shoplifting, receiving stolen property, and other crimes. She has also ordered the police not to cooperate with ICE in arresting illegal immigrants in courthouses, regardless of their crime.

This, folks, is a step toward the situation in Venezuela and in so many other Third World countries where the rule of law does not exist or is very unreliable.

Vicki Batts puts it well when she says,

While Rollins may say her memo is about creating an “equal” justice system, the victims of these now-permissible crimes aren’t likely to feel they are being treated equally. But of course, that’s really the goal here, isn’t it? No one cares about the shopkeepers and homeowners that are victimized. Under far-left dogma, criminals are the true victims, we’re just too “hateful” to see it.​

Left-Wing Cities Going Lawless - LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

Another Soros-Linked District Attorney Blocks Boston Police from Making Arrests on Shoplifting, Destruction of Property, Resisting Arrest, Drug Offenses... No Deportation of Illegals

If you think these articles must be exaggerating, here is Rollins' memo:

Rachael Rollins for Suffolk DA | Charges To Be Declined

The articles are lies, baseless demagoguery, and hasty generalization fallacies.

What one individual might say or do is not ‘representative’ of an entire class of persons.

And there are no ‘left-wing’ cities.

Yup, there are no "left-wing" cities, they've all become left-wing tent cities...dumbass.

 

[Jackson]

Wow: DA candidate Rachael Rollins is hailed nationally, but locally her plan not to prosecute petty crimes alarms some - The Boston Globe

We just keep lowering standards.
.

Some?? Alarms all! Mmake a sign and put it on every house and shop "STEAL FROM ME...IT"S OK" How many kids got involved in a petty theft and got put in jail for 30 days, only to decide this was not the life he wanted. And if I was a homeowner that was involved in a burlary, I would sue the DA for not following the law.

 

[BrokeLoser]

When I first saw this story, I thought it had to be an April Fools joke. But, it is not. Democrat Rachel Rollins, the DA of Suffolk County, which includes Boston, has ordered the police to stop arresting people for breaking and entering, destruction of private property, shoplifting, receiving stolen property, and other crimes. She has also ordered the police not to cooperate with ICE in arresting illegal immigrants in courthouses, regardless of their crime.

This, folks, is a step toward the situation in Venezuela and in so many other Third World countries where the rule of law does not exist or is very unreliable.

Vicki Batts puts it well when she says,

While Rollins may say her memo is about creating an “equal” justice system, the victims of these now-permissible crimes aren’t likely to feel they are being treated equally. But of course, that’s really the goal here, isn’t it? No one cares about the shopkeepers and homeowners that are victimized. Under far-left dogma, criminals are the true victims, we’re just too “hateful” to see it.​

Left-Wing Cities Going Lawless - LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

Another Soros-Linked District Attorney Blocks Boston Police from Making Arrests on Shoplifting, Destruction of Property, Resisting Arrest, Drug Offenses... No Deportation of Illegals

If you think these articles must be exaggerating, here is Rollins' memo:

Rachael Rollins for Suffolk DA | Charges To Be Declined

Mexicrats must pander to the lowest grade...it’s all they have, they can’t stay relevant without criminals, wetbacks, pole puffers, rug munchers, chicks with dicks and degenerate filth. They’re officially the Party Of Filth.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

As usual, this is another right wing thread based on either a misrepresentation or an outright lie. There has been a problem in Suffolk County with improper prosecution, and for now, prosecution for the things on that list must be appropriately overseen by experienced prosecutors.

Denying facts won't make them go away. If you would bother to actually break and down and read her memo, she states clearly that from now on "the default" action will be *not* to prosecute the crimes listed in her memo, and that the only way that the default action cannot be followed is with supervisor permission. So "the default" action on such crimes is not to prosecute them. Do you know what "default" means?

And, pray tell, with Rollins in charge of the DA's office, how has there been a problem with "improper prosecution" for crimes such as breaking and entering, larceny, shoplifting, trespassing, and even resisting arrest? How can you "improperly prosecute" someone for resisting arrest, breaking and entering, property destruction? If they committed the crime, what is "improper" about prosecuting them for it? Hey? Explain that one to us.

Of course I know what default means. All the things on that list can still be prosecuted if a more experienced supervisor feels it is proper. All they have to do is ask. Taking those decisions out of the hands of inexperienced people sounds like a good thing to me. You think a more experienced supervisor will let people go when they should be prosecuted?

Yes they will. It's called kissing up. The prosecutors (knowing the will of the commie DA) will be hesitant to take any action unless no other alternative is available.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Not necessarily. This is an opportunity to give responsibility back to the people, to see to their own safety, and security. Less reliance on government to solve ones problems is often times a good thing.

LOL! Yeah, okay. You should move to Boston.

In the rest of the country, the default policy is to prosecute people who commit those crimes, and the only way they are not prosecuted is if a prosecutor gets permission from a senior prosecutor not to prosecute. Rollins has now turned that traditional standard upside down. The default--in Boston--is now *not* to prosecute people who commit those crimes unless a "supervisor" (a more senior prosecutor) directs otherwise.

So... There’s no point in calling the cops for such offenses? Then one is going to have to “save themselves”. As should be. It makes for stronger, freer, more independent people. Quit expecting some government super hero to save you, and solve all your problems.

That would be true if your state supports that.

I have a CCW in my state, but our state strongly supports the victim. You go to these liberal states, they support the attacker. Liberals are the devils angels. They always side with evil over good.

So you kill somebody breaking into your home, you yourself could wind up in prison.

People go missing all the time...

Perhaps, but that takes careful planning to make that happen. In a life or death situation, you don't have time for those plans. You just do whatever it takes to save your own life.

 

[Dragonlady]

Wow: DA candidate Rachael Rollins is hailed nationally, but locally her plan not to prosecute petty crimes alarms some - The Boston Globe

We just keep lowering standards..

Here is the full list of charges that Rollins says will not be prosecuted ("unless supervisor permission is obtained")--notice that it includes resisting arrest(!):

• Trespassing
• Shoplifting (including offenses that are essentially shoplifting but charged as larceny)
• Larceny under $250
• Disorderly conduct
• Disturbing the peace
• Receiving stolen property
• Minor driving offenses, including operating with a suspend or revoked license
• Breaking and entering — where it is into a vacant property or where it is for the purpose of sleeping or seeking refuge from the cold and there is no actual damage to property
• Wanton or malicious destruction of property
• Threats – excluding domestic violence
• Minor in possession of alcohol
• Drug possession
• Drug possession with intent to distribute
• A stand alone resisting arrest charge, i.e. cases where a person is charged with resisting arrest and that is the only charge
• A resisting arrest charge combined with only charges that all fall under the list of charges to decline to prosecute, e.g. resisting arrest charge combined only with a trespassing charge

Of course you fail to post the REST of her memo, which includes how these cases are to be handled in lieu of prosecution:

Instead of prosecuting, these cases should be (1) outright dismissed prior to arraignment or (2) where appropriate, diverted and treated as a civil infraction for which community service is satisfactory, restitution is satisfactory or engagement with appropriate community-based no-cost programming, job training or schooling is satisfactory. In the exceptional circumstances where prosecution of one of these charges is warranted, the line DA must first seek permission from his or her supervisor.

Those who would be charged are not getting off scott free. They're having to make resitution and do community service work as an alternative to charges being filed, but please, don't let facts get in the way of your moral outrage you stupid shits.

You're kidding? They have to do the dreaded community service work and/or make restitution? That will stop any wanna-be criminal right in their tracks. Look for crime to decrease considerably in the next year. The streets will once again be safe to walk at night.

So, in other words, you want to charge people with every petty crime out there, criminalize them early, for shoplifting, vandalism, and other stupid shit that kids get up to, like shoplifting. This is what will happen:

It will cost YOU the dumbass taxpayers thousands of dollars to process the paperwork of filing charges these petty charges, and to take them before the courts. You pay an overcrowded "zero tolerance" legal system to process these charges, and the kid will initially get a fine, be made to pay resitution and do community service work. But it will have cost the taxpayers thousands to dollars to get that guilty plea. This DA is by-passing the legal system and getting the restitution to the property owners, and a lesson to the kids, without the expense to the taxpayers, so yes, that keeps yours streets just as safe as they are now.

This way, this kid will have not have a criminal record, which will affect his job prospects, and how he will be treated in the community. And you not will out the cost of the police, the court workers, the judges, the legal aid attorneys, which even for petty charges like shoplifting, with multiple appearances, court appointed attorneys, judges, and paperwork, runs into thousands of dollars per charge. Judges, lawyers, law clerks and court staff don't work for free, and it's YOU the taxpayers who are paying their salaries.

The kid ends up with the same punishment, but not the stigma of a criminal record. Americans have the highest rate of incareration in the world, and the highest rates of crime. It costs upwards of $70,000 a year to keep someone in jail, and every year there are more and more people in your jails. What you're currently doing is NOT WORKING, in terms of keeping your streets safe since you all need to be armed to the teeth to protect your life and property at all times and to keep yourselves safe.

These are the breaks that punk ass white kids in rural areas get ALL OF THE TIME. I know because I grew up amongst those punk ass rural kids. Jobs with the country road crews always go to some local politician's n'eer do well nephew, who's too broke to farm, and too useless to get a real job.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Wow: DA candidate Rachael Rollins is hailed nationally, but locally her plan not to prosecute petty crimes alarms some - The Boston Globe

We just keep lowering standards..

Here is the full list of charges that Rollins says will not be prosecuted ("unless supervisor permission is obtained")--notice that it includes resisting arrest(!):

• Trespassing
• Shoplifting (including offenses that are essentially shoplifting but charged as larceny)
• Larceny under $250
• Disorderly conduct
• Disturbing the peace
• Receiving stolen property
• Minor driving offenses, including operating with a suspend or revoked license
• Breaking and entering — where it is into a vacant property or where it is for the purpose of sleeping or seeking refuge from the cold and there is no actual damage to property
• Wanton or malicious destruction of property
• Threats – excluding domestic violence
• Minor in possession of alcohol
• Drug possession
• Drug possession with intent to distribute
• A stand alone resisting arrest charge, i.e. cases where a person is charged with resisting arrest and that is the only charge
• A resisting arrest charge combined with only charges that all fall under the list of charges to decline to prosecute, e.g. resisting arrest charge combined only with a trespassing charge

Of course you left off the rest of the story:

"Instead of prosecuting, these cases should be (1) outright dismissed prior to arraignment or (2) where appropriate, diverted and treated as a civil infraction for which community service is satisfactory, restitution is satisfactory or engagement with appropriate community-based no-cost programming, job training or schooling is satisfactory. In the exceptional circumstances where prosecution of one of these charges is warranted, the line DA must first seek permission from his or her supervisor. If necessary, arraignment will be continued to allow for consultation with supervisor. Thus, there will be an avenue for prosecuting these misdemeanors when necessary but it will be appropriately overseen by experienced prosecutors."

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Why is it that whenever you post something, it is intentionally misleading?

What the DA is saying is essentially this:

More crimes that in the past bought you jail time will be handled like a speeding ticket or other minor violation. There is still a penalty for committing these acts; the difference is that it no longer involves a trip to County.

What she is saying is this: Go ahead and do the crime, because you won't do the time.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Alternative sentencing would eliminate this forced acceptance of lawlessness.

Use caning or whipping in public. Give the criminal a video of himself or herself stripped to the waist, tied to a pole, getting a striped back.

The American boy caned for graffiti in Singapore never did it again.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Wow: DA candidate Rachael Rollins is hailed nationally, but locally her plan not to prosecute petty crimes alarms some - The Boston Globe

We just keep lowering standards..

Here is the full list of charges that Rollins says will not be prosecuted ("unless supervisor permission is obtained")--notice that it includes resisting arrest(!):

• Trespassing
• Shoplifting (including offenses that are essentially shoplifting but charged as larceny)
• Larceny under $250
• Disorderly conduct
• Disturbing the peace
• Receiving stolen property
• Minor driving offenses, including operating with a suspend or revoked license
• Breaking and entering — where it is into a vacant property or where it is for the purpose of sleeping or seeking refuge from the cold and there is no actual damage to property
• Wanton or malicious destruction of property
• Threats – excluding domestic violence
• Minor in possession of alcohol
• Drug possession
• Drug possession with intent to distribute
• A stand alone resisting arrest charge, i.e. cases where a person is charged with resisting arrest and that is the only charge
• A resisting arrest charge combined with only charges that all fall under the list of charges to decline to prosecute, e.g. resisting arrest charge combined only with a trespassing charge

Of course you fail to post the REST of her memo, which includes how these cases are to be handled in lieu of prosecution:

Instead of prosecuting, these cases should be (1) outright dismissed prior to arraignment or (2) where appropriate, diverted and treated as a civil infraction for which community service is satisfactory, restitution is satisfactory or engagement with appropriate community-based no-cost programming, job training or schooling is satisfactory. In the exceptional circumstances where prosecution of one of these charges is warranted, the line DA must first seek permission from his or her supervisor.

Those who would be charged are not getting off scott free. They're having to make resitution and do community service work as an alternative to charges being filed, but please, don't let facts get in the way of your moral outrage you stupid shits.

You're kidding? They have to do the dreaded community service work and/or make restitution? That will stop any wanna-be criminal right in their tracks. Look for crime to decrease considerably in the next year. The streets will once again be safe to walk at night.

So, in other words, you want to charge people with every petty crime out there, criminalize them early, for shoplifting, vandalism, and other stupid shit that kids get up to, like shoplifting. This is what will happen:

It will cost YOU the dumbass taxpayers thousands of dollars to process the paperwork of filing charges these petty charges, and to take them before the courts. You pay an overcrowded "zero tolerance" legal system to process these charges, and the kid will initially get a fine, be made to pay resitution and do community service work. But it will have cost the taxpayers thousands to dollars to get that guilty plea. This DA is by-passing the legal system and getting the restitution to the property owners, and a lesson to the kids, without the expense to the taxpayers, so yes, that keeps yours streets just as safe as they are now.

This way, this kid will have not have a criminal record, which will affect his job prospects, and how he will be treated in the community. And you not will out the cost of the police, the court workers, the judges, the legal aid attorneys, which even for petty charges like shoplifting, with multiple appearances, court appointed attorneys, judges, and paperwork, runs into thousands of dollars per charge. Judges, lawyers, law clerks and court staff don't work for free, and it's YOU the taxpayers who are paying their salaries.

The kid ends up with the same punishment, but not the stigma of a criminal record. Americans have the highest rate of incareration in the world, and the highest rates of crime. It costs upwards of $70,000 a year to keep someone in jail, and every year there are more and more people in your jails. What you're currently doing is NOT WORKING, in terms of keeping your streets safe since you all need to be armed to the teeth to protect your life and property at all times and to keep yourselves safe.

These are the breaks that punk ass white kids in rural areas get ALL OF THE TIME. I know because I grew up amongst those punk ass rural kids. Jobs with the country road crews always go to some local politician's n'eer do well nephew, who's too broke to farm, and too useless to get a real job.

You have no idea what you're talking about. First off, our prison cost is nowhere near 70K a year. I believe last I checked it was less than half of that. Secondly, I don't know what you do in Canada, but in the US, your juvenile records are sealed once you turn 18. So nobody has access to your criminal records unless you were charged and sentenced as an adult which usually only happens in serious criminal cases.

The problem in our country and one of the reasons we have the prison population we do is because some kids never get penalized for wrongdoing. They are raised in liberal single-parent homes and the mother could give two shits about the kid unless he's gunned down in the street somewhere. The way you grow up is likely the way you'll lead the rest of your life.

Yes, you have to teach people young on that crime doesn't pay. Or they will likely end up dead by the time they reach 25.

 

[Uncensored2008]

When I first saw this story, I thought it had to be an April Fools joke. But, it is not. Democrat Rachel Rollins, the DA of Suffolk County, which includes Boston, has ordered the police to stop arresting people for breaking and entering, destruction of private property, shoplifting, receiving stolen property, and other crimes. She has also ordered the police not to cooperate with ICE in arresting illegal immigrants in courthouses, regardless of their crime.

This, folks, is a step toward the situation in Venezuela and in so many other Third World countries where the rule of law does not exist or is very unreliable.

Vicki Batts puts it well when she says,

While Rollins may say her memo is about creating an “equal” justice system, the victims of these now-permissible crimes aren’t likely to feel they are being treated equally. But of course, that’s really the goal here, isn’t it? No one cares about the shopkeepers and homeowners that are victimized. Under far-left dogma, criminals are the true victims, we’re just too “hateful” to see it.​

Left-Wing Cities Going Lawless - LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

Another Soros-Linked District Attorney Blocks Boston Police from Making Arrests on Shoplifting, Destruction of Property, Resisting Arrest, Drug Offenses... No Deportation of Illegals

If you think these articles must be exaggerating, here is Rollins' memo:

Rachael Rollins for Suffolk DA | Charges To Be Declined

This needs federal attention. It is no different than when democrats were lynching blacks in the South. It is democrats flagrantly violating the law, again. Batts is violating the civil rights of those in Boston. She needs to do some SERIOUS federal time.

 

[mikegriffith1]

I would like to know how and/or why there were "problem prosecutions" for breaking and entering, resisting arrest, receiving stolen goods, larceny, trespassing, shoplifting, etc., before Rollins took office. Why were they "problems"?

I don't know if this is the case, but I'm guessing that perhaps they were "problems" because the majority of the crimes were committed by minorities, and that therefore the prosecutions of those crimes were deemed "unfair" because they involved a "disproportionate" number of minorities. Again, I'm just guessing here. (How about we adopt Rollins' policy for white-collar crimes, since the vast majority of the people prosecuted for such crimes are white?)

And I ask again: Given Rollins' far-left ideology and the fact that her memo says those crimes are offenses "for which the Default is to Decline Prosecuting," how often does anyone think a senior Assistant District Attorney is going to approve a prosecution request? 20% of the time? 10%? 30%? Let's assume a best-case scenario: 50% of the time. That means 50% of those crimes would not be prosecuted or would be treated as harmless civil offenses.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Wow: DA candidate Rachael Rollins is hailed nationally, but locally her plan not to prosecute petty crimes alarms some - The Boston Globe

We just keep lowering standards.
.

democrats are waging civil war against America. This sort of shit is designed to destroy the fabric of our civilization.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Wow: DA candidate Rachael Rollins is hailed nationally, but locally her plan not to prosecute petty crimes alarms some - The Boston Globe

We just keep lowering standards..

Here is the full list of charges that Rollins says will not be prosecuted ("unless supervisor permission is obtained")--notice that it includes resisting arrest(!):

• Trespassing
• Shoplifting (including offenses that are essentially shoplifting but charged as larceny)
• Larceny under $250
• Disorderly conduct
• Disturbing the peace
• Receiving stolen property
• Minor driving offenses, including operating with a suspend or revoked license
• Breaking and entering — where it is into a vacant property or where it is for the purpose of sleeping or seeking refuge from the cold and there is no actual damage to property
• Wanton or malicious destruction of property
• Threats – excluding domestic violence
• Minor in possession of alcohol
• Drug possession
• Drug possession with intent to distribute
• A stand alone resisting arrest charge, i.e. cases where a person is charged with resisting arrest and that is the only charge
• A resisting arrest charge combined with only charges that all fall under the list of charges to decline to prosecute, e.g. resisting arrest charge combined only with a trespassing charge

She should be tarred, feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

When I first saw this story, I thought it had to be an April Fools joke. But, it is not. Democrat Rachel Rollins, the DA of Suffolk County, which includes Boston, has ordered the police to stop arresting people for breaking and entering, destruction of private property, shoplifting, receiving stolen property, and other crimes. She has also ordered the police not to cooperate with ICE in arresting illegal immigrants in courthouses, regardless of their crime.

This, folks, is a step toward the situation in Venezuela and in so many other Third World countries where the rule of law does not exist or is very unreliable.

Vicki Batts puts it well when she says,

While Rollins may say her memo is about creating an “equal” justice system, the victims of these now-permissible crimes aren’t likely to feel they are being treated equally. But of course, that’s really the goal here, isn’t it? No one cares about the shopkeepers and homeowners that are victimized. Under far-left dogma, criminals are the true victims, we’re just too “hateful” to see it.​

Left-Wing Cities Going Lawless - LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

Another Soros-Linked District Attorney Blocks Boston Police from Making Arrests on Shoplifting, Destruction of Property, Resisting Arrest, Drug Offenses... No Deportation of Illegals

If you think these articles must be exaggerating, here is Rollins' memo:

Rachael Rollins for Suffolk DA | Charges To Be Declined

Boston is a great place be a criminal

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The Democratic Party knows that their voter base is a bunch of low life criminals

 

[Uncensored2008]

As usual, this is another right wing thread based on either a misrepresentation or an outright lie. There has been a problem in Suffolk County with improper prosecution, and for now, prosecution for the things on that list must be appropriately overseen by experienced prosecutors.

Got caught, did you fuckwad?

You scum are waging civil war on this nation. This is just more of your shit designed to corrupt the foundation of civil society so as to create anarchy so that your rulers can seize power.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Breaking and entering are no longer crimes. If you wake up in the middle of the night to find a man with a gun going through your dresser you have no recourse. All he has to say is I was looking for a place to sleep and there is no possibility of prosecution.