Originally Posted by: hunter60Then we can move along the ol' logic trail and say that you have to look at what is stolen to decide the degree and extent of punishment? Is stealing $5.00 from an elderly person on a fixed income less a crime than bilking some huge conglmerate out of a half a million dollars? It's theft. Plain and simple.
Well, not really. One's petty theft and the other is grand larceny, embezzlement, and probably fraud.