WESTMINSTER, CA – Orange County Deputy District
Attorney Erik Petersen seems to be puzzled. He appears
not to understand the reasons why a jury decided to
find Theresa Dang, 26, of Westminster, California,
“not guilty,” of two misdemeanor theft charges for
allegedly stealing a flashlight “lost” by a Garden
Grove policeman at a counterdemonstration she attended
earlier this year. “I don’t know whether they got
caught up in the law or the politics behind it or the
fact that the flashlight was only worth $100,” a
newspaper reporter quotes him as saying. {1} ...