How can you find out what crimes a person committed who you know is in prison?

This is a very odd question, but, what sort of crime would a person have to commit to be charged with Burglary, Class C and be serving 9-10 years in prison? It's not me or anything obviously and not a family member of mine, so that's why I don't know the specifics. But in all likelihood, anyone familiar with the law have any idea what someone, in the state of New York, would have to do to end up with a 9-10 year prison sentence for Burglary? I realize that he obviously stole something, but I was wondering if the sentence and the Class C could give clues as to what this individual might have stolen. Thanks for any help you can provide me. Please only respond if you have some knowledge of the law and you can shed light on this matter for me. Thanks again.

How can you find out what crimes a person committed who you know is in prison?
Its not the offense it self that got them that much time in prison. Its the accumulation of their criminal record that got them that much.





Unless someone commits a murder or serious sex crime, all other offenses have maximum sentence guidelines they fall into. Since he got that much time, he had to have had an extensive prior record that scored him out in sentencing to a long stint in the joint.





What you can do, on closed cases, is go to the police agency that investigated the case and pay a small fee and get a copy of the entire report.





Then you can see exactly what occured.
Reply:What a person did and what they were charged with are usually two very different things. The actual charge used for sentencing is typically the result of a plea down, so unless you know the case there is no real way of knowing what the person actually did.





FWIW, burglary typically consists of trespassing and stealing. Can be in a business or residence.





Short of knowing the case intimately, each state has their own book of statutes. You would have to look up the statute number, but it won't tell you what they broke into or what they stole. Perhaps the approximate value of the theft.