Criminal Law — Larceny

The Borrowed Bike

Robin grabbed Casey's unlocked bicycle from a public rack, rode it two blocks to run an errand, and planned to return it within the hour. While locking it up outside a store, Robin decided the bike was nicer than Robin's own and resolved to keep it for good.

Law. Common-law larceny is the trespassory taking and carrying away (asportation) of the personal property of another with intent to permanently deprive the owner of it. The intent to permanently deprive must coincide with the trespassory taking; an intent to keep that forms only after an initially non-felonious taking does not by itself satisfy this element — except under the continuing-trespass doctrine, where the original taking was itself wrongful.

In one sentence, state whether Robin's conduct satisfies common-law larceny, and why.

one-sentence · ≤ 35 words

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