Q: can I be arrested for jumping thru a window to retrieve my gfs dog that wasn’t going to be given back by her mother?
My girlfriend and I recently got kicked out by her mother for such unjust reasons, but we weren’t able to retrieve all of our belongings including her dog whom she’s owned for almost 5 years now. We arrived today and called if we can have her dog and go in peace, instead her mother refused, and I climbed the roof and entered a window and got the dog and only the dog and went out. There was no way she was giving us the dog and we really tried to reason with her very civilized. I really had no bad intention but to get my girlfriend her dog.
A:
Trespass is the criminal entry onto the property of another without privilege. If you committed a trespass, you could be arrested. What you did is called resorting to "self help" and is best left to vigilante movies.
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