This fellow has been convicted of robbery after a decade of bumping into people and then claiming that they’d broken his (already broken) glasses. A hundred bucks and he’d go away.
My criminal law professor Loftus Becker could probably have a field day with this one: some goof carries around a pair of busted glasses, bumps into strangers and demands reparation. Robbery or simple scam? If the defendant were 4′ 2″, definitely scam. But this guy is 6′ 2″, 270 pounds, so intimidation comes into play, and in my opinion, makes it a robbery. But suppose he had no more intention to rob his victim than the midget? Should he be charged with a felony just because of his size?