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presumably would be sufficient for some kind of charge to be brought?
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Defence lawyer - 'my client was innocently picking up items fully intending to purchase them, Your Worship'.
There can still be a conviction if they can prove intent to deprive the shop of the items in question, which is presumably a bit easier to prove if you're walking out with them rather than round the shop. It'd be interesting to know if the presence or absence of the means to pay for the items would be admissible - think of some absent minded lady with a basket full of stuff and who left her purse at home.