State v. Morris

¶1 On March 30, 2007, Macy’s loss prevention officers, via closed circuit camera, saw Darnell Morris take two watches valued at $205.02 from a clearance display at the Tacoma Mall Macy’s and leave without paying for them. Because Macy’s had revoked Morris’s right to enter the store for one year (“trespassed” him) on February 6, 2007, the Pierce County prosecuting attorney’s office charged Morris with one count of second degree burglary, RCW 9A.52.030(1). A jury found Morris guilty as charged, and the trial court sentenced him to 43 months, the high end of the standard range for an offender…