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About Robin Sexton
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Questions dealing with Police and investigative procedures, criminal investigation for all classifications of crimes, Interview and interrogation techniques, crime scene procedure. Police techniques and procedures. Can not answer specific questions about specific cases.

Experience
Member of the Michigan State Police for over 30 years. Over 20 years as a Detective. Conducted numerous investigations from Homicide to dog bite. Internal investigations. Investigations in prison enviorment. Majority of career has been spent in rural areas of Michigan

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Bachelor of Science degree. Long list of professional training

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Criminal Law - Issuance of Worthless Check

Expert: Robin Sexton - 11/3/2009

Question
I have received 3 charges of Issuance of Wothless Checks. I am filling out job applications and I am wondering if that charge is considered fraud?

Answer
Lindsey,

Thanks for trying to be honest. Issuing worthless checks is a very common offense. There are several different terms for it. Lets be realistic about this. To me and others the question is "why" were the checks written ? If they were written knowing the money was not there and was intended to "defraud" the person. I would call that fraud. If it is the more common problem of a person making repeated book keeping mistakes and things just got away from them. Then i don't believe the necessary intent is there to call it fraud. That however is my opinion. Technically, insufficient fund checks falls under the fraud statutes. If i was in your position i would probably say it was not fraud as there was "no intent to defraud". This is your decision unfortunately.

Hope this helped

robin

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