Commonwealth v. Rajotte

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that robbery “is understood to include the common law conception of taking in a victim’s ‘presence’ and covers cases where the victim could have prevented the taking, had he not been intimidated”
• defendant broke into empty restaurant and took money from kitchen; crime became armed robbery when employee arrived and defendant assaulted him with knife
• “[T]he defendant argues that the taking was not effected by force or threat of force and hence was only a larceny and not a robbery.” (emphasis added)
• force employed after taking; a fact finder may look at such an episode as a “continuum”
• “A larceny may be converted into a robbery if ... an assault is committed on a person who, having some protective concern for the goods taken interferes with the completion of the theft.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).