Robbery

The MBE loves robbery’s timing-of-force trap. Force or intimidation must accomplish the taking, but because larceny is a continuing offense through asportation, the majority (and usual MBE) rule treats force used to retain the loot or escape before reaching safety as robbery too — so a thief who is spotted and then struggles to keep the property has committed robbery, not merely larceny plus a battery. The narrow exception is a larceny that is fully complete with the property abandoned: later force, used only to avoid arrest, is a separate assault. Watch the presence tell — property in the victim’s vicinity counts, so emptying a register while holding the clerk at gunpoint is robbery even though the cash never touched the clerk.

Robbery’s threat must be of immediate harm; a threat of future harm is extortion (blackmail). Don’t confuse robbery with burglary — burglary is complete at entry with felonious intent and needs no taking at all. Breaking in intending to rob, then robbing inside, is two crimes, not one.