Hey, so I have to go to court Tuesday, and as far as I'm concerned they charged me based on one incident that had happened at work where I stole money from the register, (we have a register in the food section of my department store as well) by giving another employee an (unknown) amount of money to an employer while he was on break, so I need to write a letter of apology, which is what the cop said, would make it easier for me. The problem is that I have never had this experience and wrote a lot of drafts but I wanted advice from other people on how to write it, based on the info I gave you. (The format, etc.. ) Andwhat to not write if I don't want to sound bad in the letter, that's my main issue, thanks again!

Do me (and us) a huge favor. Post your letter here (it has to be in your words, not in ours), and we will offer suggestions for improving it. And of course, don't post any personal or grocery store information so someone can find you or the store.

Hello I:

From what I read, it looks like you're trying to MINIMIZE your participation... That's just going to PISS the judge off. Don't do that.

excon

@wondergirl here is my letter

To: the honorable judge of the youth justice court
Please accept my sincerest apologies for any misconduct that may have taken place on the date of jan.18 2012 the reason that I wrote this letter is to write about the remorse that I feel. What I had done was a very big mistake that I committed, and I did not really think about what I had done but now that I started to reflect upon the actions that had taken place, I know that I should have made a smarter decision as opposed to my premature judgement that I had done at the time. Unfortunately nobody is able to go back in time and fix their wrongdoings, which is why I started realizing how much of an error this was, and instead of being held back, to think of ways to actually move on with my life in a positive manner and to think of ways that will prevent me from ever foing anything else with such poor judgement ever again.

I hope that you can take this letter as a sign that I have definitely learned from my fault, and that this letter conveyed the message that I am sorry to your honor and the court for any inconvenience I have caused to >store name removed< due to my unthoughtful acts, I hope that this letter has given me an opportunity to help show my remorse and to offer my amends as well
Sincerely
My name

excon will have to approve of this, am not sure my editing is good enough in your situation.

To: the honorable judge of the youth justice court:

Please accept my sincerest apologies for what I did on January 18, 2012. I am very sorry I had the poor judgment and inability to consider the consequences when I stole from X. I should have been smarter.

I want to move on with my life in a positive direction and act in productive, not destructive, ways, so I will never do anything like this again.

Please accept this as a sign that I have definitely learned from my mistake. Again, I am sorry and apologize for any inconvenience I have caused.

Sincerely,
My name

Of course your attorney should approve this, since what it is , it is a confession. So have you plead guilty, have you been found guility, has your attorney told you that you could not perhaps be found not guilty.

If just the police officer told you to do something I would personally not trust the police officer, they can legally lie to you, to help convict you.

Excellent points, Fr_Chuck. I was simply looking at the letter on its own merit as to how it sounds, having reduced it from a very wordy thing to at least getting to the point of his theft and remorse. Actually, I'm against the letter and wouldn't think it would help much, if at all.

Hello again, I:

I think the letter you wrote is PERFECT, and I was LOOKING for some minimizing.. I wouldn't change a word. Yes, it's NOT grammatically correct, but if it was PERFECT, it wouldn't look like it came from you.

excon

"Hello again, I:

I think the letter you wrote is PERFECT, and I was LOOKING for some minimizing.. I wouldn't change a word. Yes, it's NOT grammatically correct, but if it was PERFECT, it wouldn't look like it came from you.

excon"

Thanks a lot excon, I think it relieved some pressure off my back! By the way. Have you had experience with apology letters and whatnot excon? I would appreciate if you told me a bit of how court proceedings go, it would definitely make me feel a bit better

And guys, just to shed some light on the situation, this is a matter over 20$, I admitted that I gave another employee an extra 20$ in change on his break, so this is not like I stole the whole drawer, or 4 grand. It was just a dumb impulse mistake.

Hello again, I:

I think the letter you wrote is PERFECT, and I was LOOKING for some minimizing.. I wouldn't change a word. Yes, it's NOT grammatically correct, but if it was PERFECT, it wouldn't look like it came from you.

excon
Yeah, the edited one looks like it came from ME.

@excon hey guys if you are still there! I have court tomorrow and wanted to know if this version was good to go

To: the honorable judge of the youth justice court

Please accept my sincerest apologies for any misconduct that has taken place on the date of January 18th 2012. The reason that I wrote this letter is to address the event that had happened on that date. I was accused of mishandling money to a customer when I went to the cash register to serve a customer. I wanted to express my deepest apology for my poor judgment that I had made while giving the change back to the customer. Although I had made that mistake, I would like to emphasize that I have not stolen anything from my former employer before the said event. I do realize the error of my ways, and instead of being held back, I have thought of ways to actually move on with my life in a positive manner and to think of methods that will prevent me from ever doing anything else with such poor judgment ever again.


I hope that you can take this letter as a sign that I have definitely learned from my fault, and that this letter has conveyed the message that I am sorry to your honor and to the court for any inconvenience I have caused to Loblaw's due to my unthoughtful acts, as hard as it may be for Your Honor to accept my apology, I just hope that this letter has given me an opportunity to help show my remorse and to offer my amends as well.

Sincerely

Ishaaq Aden

Did you give money from the register to another employee or to a customer?

@Wondergirl
Yes it was to another employee, but the said employee was buying himself food to eat

So it wasn't "mishandling money to a customer" (which sounds like you gave a customer too much change), but you deliberately took money out of the till and gave it to another employee.

You do realizing you are covering up the truth, don't you? And this could get you into worse trouble.

And guys, just to shed some light on the situation, this is a matter over 20$, I admitted that I gave another employee an extra 20$ in change on his break, so this is not like I stole the whole drawer, or 4 grand. It was just a dumb impulse mistake.


I'd stop mininimzing what you did - you STOLE from your EMPLOYER. I see remorse over getting caught (not over stealing), a lot of reasons it happened, a lot of minimizing the theft.