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Bob once noticed that a particular door’s remote entry system was misconfigured (thus not properly locking the door upon it being closed) at an inpatient facility and that upon entering, there is a guest bedroom apparently used for patients’ visitors who find themselves needing accommodations overnight where the door is also unlocked.

One day he needs a place to crash and all the trains are finished for the night so he decides to let himself into this guest bedroom as it is already 2:00am and nobody apparently needed it for that night and the bed linens are already made etc.

Perhaps he has brought a date there and they have sex in the bed. (Would this make any difference if he did?)

Have any crimes been committed by Bob, and/or his date, and if so, what?

The main candidates (non-exhaustive) seem to me to be aggravated trespass, in case someone comes along and legitimately needs the room but cannot use it, though possibly not applicable otherwise, and criminal damage although I’m not sure if it would be barred by de minimis thresholds. I’m not confident of the applicability of either of these suggestions, nor of the right parameters of their respective caveats.

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Trespass, theft of services, criminal damaging, burglary/breaking and entering.

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