My question involves criminal law for the state of: California
Hi, here goes my best condensed version of what wal-mart and my girlfriend put me and my 2 year old son through. All 3 of us arrive at wal-mart about noon time and we grab a cart and shortly split up for the first time in the store. She to the craft section (w/my son in cart). I went to the shaving razor aisle and grabbed 2 razors, both of roughly equal value. One of the razors was the last box left on the shelf for that brand and it was in terrible condition (box torn with razor easily exposed to falling out if held wrong). So I make my selection and off I go with the 2 razors over to the craft section to get my girlfriends opinion on which I should get. Being that I hate shopping anywhere with my girlfriend or anyone who wants to mosey around and not get their items and checkout ASAP.
Well I could tell she still had some stuff to buy so I handed both the razors to her and asked if she would buy me which ever one she liked best and I'd pay her back at home. She Agreed. So I then said I'd go get some McDonalds (located in front of wal-mart store) for our son and when she gets done to meet us out at the car. As I grab our son and turn to go get him a happymeal I insist that she'd better not leave us out in the car waiting and to get her items she was needing to get and to please be quick about it.
I buy my son lunch and we go and I feed him in his carseat in wal-marts parking lot.
10 minutes goes bye.....
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30.........
Thats it! I unstrap the baby and off we go to find where mama is. I walk around and around the store and cant find her anywhere. So I figure I'm gonna show her so I strap my boy in and we move the car around the parking lot to mess with her for her obvious disreard for either of my son or my feelings. While I'm doing this I notice this fellow I'd seen several times while looking around the store for her. So now it's been an hour and I'm going into the store again with my son and 2 police officers stop me along with the fellow who I'd seen lurking at a distance watching me look for my baby mother and not saying a word.
Well the cops stop me in front of the store and tell me my girlfriend has been arrested for shoplifting and that this fellow (aka undercover security 4 wal-mart) is saying that I had something to do with her shoplifting several items and the 2 razors she said she would buy for me and I'd pay her back were both inside the bag she apparently had full of several stolen items.
Heres where it gets me furious about though. The cops after telling me my GF is under arrest, they ask if they can search my car.
"My car, I said?" ..."Naw!, I dont got nothing to hide in there but still. It's my policy to never submit to a search unless made to.So sorry, no."
This sparked an immediate come with me to the area inside the store where they do returns and they put me in handcuffs in front of my son while the empty my pockets. Nothing of interest or any contraband was found in or on my person, so I figure the cuffs are coming off right?...wrong!
They run both our names for priors and she has none yet I have a burglary from over a decade earlier, and the cop asks me the same question that he stated to me as I first was approached by them, "You do know your wife/girlfriend is under arrest for shoplifting right?"
"Yeah!" I said with all these customers lined up looking at me like I stole something and my son in a shopping cart looking scared and not sure whats going on.
Well to sum it up they took me to jail with a $15,000 bail bond for pc.666 and they let my girlfriend and my son drive off in my car after they searched it and found no wal-mart items in it.
Am I wrong here in believing that simply asking your spouse to buy you one of 2 different razors and she goes and steals them 45 minutes later on her own with me out in the car feeding junior.
Did I commit a crime?
Now waal-mart sent a $300 civil collection letter. DO I NEED A LAWYER?

