Here are the details, she brought in her own Neiman-Marcus bag, and stuffed it while in the dressing room.
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Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi’s claim that she was distracted while carrying $2,445 worth of unpaid clothing items from San Francisco’s Neiman Marcus store will be a tough sell to the district attorney’s office, one criminal law expert says.
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texting on her cellphone as she carried leather pants, a black leather skirt and a white blouse that she had placed in a Neiman Marcus shopping bag that she brought into the store Oct. 24. After she was confronted outside the store by an employee, she claimed she had intended to pay for the items.
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she was in a dressing cubicle at the time she put the items into the bag. It was at that moment that Hayashi may have exhibited an intent to steal
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“What seems unusual to me is the value of it,” Hammerschmidt said. “It would be one thing to say you forgot about something of low value, but when you’re talking about $2,400 worth of clothes, you’re talking about a major purchase, one that would be harder to forget about.”
Not only did Hayashi cross the threshold, she walked between 50 and 100 feet away from the high-end Union Square department store before a Neiman Marcus loss prevention officer stopped her,
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Hayashi’s spokesman, Sam Singer, called the alleged theft a “misunderstanding,” saying that she had put items in her bag on the fourth floor of Neiman Marcus and had forgotten that she had them after chatting with a second-floor sales clerk, eating at a cafe and then walking outside the store as she texted.
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Hayashi’s husband, Dennis Hayashi, is an Alameda County Superior Court judge. |
