The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. There was ample evidence to establish that defendant, after shoplifting two compact discs from the store, engaged in pushing, fighting, kicking and wrestling in an effort to defeat the security guards' efforts to recover the property, such as to constitute the use of physical force for the purpose of "[p]reventing or overcoming resistance * * * to the retention [of the property...
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