If you take more then $1000 in goods from a walmart in Tennessee, it doesnt matter what your record is, walmart doesnt even have to press charges, once something passes into the felony level in TN, the state comes for you indiscriminately. His charges may get reduced, hell probably just end up on probation, but he will not have charges dropped with a price tag that high in TN, isnt gonna happen lmao.
I spent 6 years on probation in this state as a teenager for accidentally steeling a far side comic book from Books a million, and returning it on my own prerogative the next day. Books a million banned me from the store, called the police, they issued a citation, and a court date, charges were not dropped. Not even close, they actually got amplified at court.
Was my fdirst offense, and i was a kid. Tn, land of hypocrisy. real pretty place though. And the people are usually amazingly good to you