Nobody disputed that the defendant had handed over a note demanding money — please — from a Newark bank. The only remaining question: How dangerous had he been, really?
A few steps into his casual getaway, a dye pack inside the envelope exploded like an ill-timed gender reveal, into a misty puff of pink.
When the man, Esau Grant, was arrested two days later, a Newark police official could not resist joking that he had been caught “red-handed.” And public attention moved on to the next viral moment of human folly.
Perhaps it offers nothing more than a chance to imagine yourself in the pink-stained sneakers of a desperate, hapless bank robber — as I did when I served on the jury that recently heard the state’s case against him.
On the cool, wet Saturday morning of July 3, 2021, Mr. Grant joined a long line in the small Capital One bank on Springfield Avenue.
He’d been convicted of a handful of minor crimes, including once for throwing rocks and damaging the windows of a bank that had refused to activate his debit card.
But she asserted that words were not enough to support a conviction for first-degree robbery, which requires some gesture or conduct to bolster the threat of being armed — and, she maintained, he hadn’t done so.
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A few steps into his casual getaway, a dye pack inside the envelope exploded like an ill-timed gender reveal, into a misty puff of pink.
When the man, Esau Grant, was arrested two days later, a Newark police official could not resist joking that he had been caught “red-handed.” And public attention moved on to the next viral moment of human folly.
Perhaps it offers nothing more than a chance to imagine yourself in the pink-stained sneakers of a desperate, hapless bank robber — as I did when I served on the jury that recently heard the state’s case against him.
On the cool, wet Saturday morning of July 3, 2021, Mr. Grant joined a long line in the small Capital One bank on Springfield Avenue.
He’d been convicted of a handful of minor crimes, including once for throwing rocks and damaging the windows of a bank that had refused to activate his debit card.
But she asserted that words were not enough to support a conviction for first-degree robbery, which requires some gesture or conduct to bolster the threat of being armed — and, she maintained, he hadn’t done so.
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