Quote Originally Posted by Steve-O View Post
To play devil's advocate:

If you go into a bank and the teller accidentally gives you $10,000 instead of $10 do you keep it?

If you notice an ATM machine is malfunctioning and spitting out money do you get to keep it?

Theoretically, in both cases it should be up to the bank and ATM machine owner to make sure things are working properly.
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Some of the charges seem applicable: "breach of contract, fraud, conversion, unjust enrichment, civil conspiracy and racketeering" It's not as if he was playing and recognized the flaw. this was premeditated, evidenced by the woman and his growing history.

A similar edge sorting case was won by the casino btw.

It's a very interesting case that I don't find clear-cut at all
Whether an activity is premeditated or spur-off-the-moment only affects the *severity* of the underlying crime, not whether the activity is criminal. Case in point is premeditated murder (1st degree) versus a crime-of-passion murder (2nd degree). Similarly, if I spent months studying and planning to count cards at a casino versus picking it up on the fly while playing wouldn't make counting cards illegal in the first case but legal in the second if there is no law against counting cards.