An Unsuccessful
Effort to Steal a House
In a verdict widely reported of
in the news, including in the New York Times, a man in Bartow, Florida
has been sentenced to prison following his efforts to steal a house.
In connection with a residential
closing, Stanley Livingston asked to defer signing the mortgage documents, even
as he was somehow able to convince the other participants to go ahead and sign
the deed made out to him. He grabbed that document and ran out of the closing.
Two days later he filed that deed with the county land records, and then
asserted he was the owner of the property free and clear.
He was convicted of grand theft
for filing a false document against real property. At some point in the proceeding, that deed was
declared void by the court. Now, rather than living in that house, he will
spend the next 3 ½ years in prison.
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