Ibarra v. State

By the Court, PICKERING, J.:

A jury convicted Gabriel Ibarra of larceny from the person. To convict a defendant of this crime the State must prove that, "under circumstances not amounting to robbery, with the intent to steal or appropriate to his or her own use, [the defendant took] property from the person of another, without the other person's consent." NRS 205.270. Ibarra stole a cell phone from a woman sitting next to him at a bus stop. He asked to use her phone to make a call, then, as she handed it to him, he grabbed the phone and ran. Because the woman voluntarily handed him her phone,…