Can someone drop a petty theft charge?
A petit theft charge is technically the State of Florida’s criminal case against you. Thus, if someone’s going to “drop” the case, it must be the State. However, sometimes an alleged victim of petit theft may come forward, and explain that–in fact–a defendant was not guilty of the crime as previously thought. Thus, if the ‘second explaination’ to the State sounds satisfactory, the State may proceed to drop their charges when convinced to do so by the alleged victim of the petit theft. Of course, sometimes alleged victims of petit theft are so uncooperative that the State is forced to drop their charges. This can take quite a while, but I’ll give you common example. A person is arrested for petit theft from a friend. The friend has the defendant arrested for petit theft, and then later feels bad about it, calls the State Attorney and requests that charges be dropped. The State doesn’t drop charges just because a friend has had a change of heart, so the case continues forward. The frie
