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DeputyDog
As I said, I understand the very valid reasons for retaining legal counsel. I was speaking to this mindset of "Say nothing, try to get the charges dismissed on a technicality." That's not honorable.
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A mistake is parking your car in the wrong spot because you forgot where you were told to park. You are a thief. You stole purposely, every time. No mistake there.
No it's not guaranteed to happen again. But I've been working long enough to know that it usually does.
Your "concern" with it being on your record should have stopped you from doing it. But you willingly chose to make a bet, of sorts, and you bet your future that you'd not get caught - and you lost that bet spectacularly. I do not feel bad for you.
This is not "disorderly behavior." Disorderly behavior is getting a little too drunk and being a little too loud in public, or play fighting and acting like a fool in a manner that briefly annoys other people.
This is theft. And you are a criminal.