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Man on trial charged with theft during lunch break
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FRANKLIN (AP) — A man on trial for robbery was arrested Friday after the jury delivered a guilty verdict. His crime? Authorities say he pulled a heist while on a lunch break from his trial a day earlier.The Tennessean reports police waited for a jury's decision in Mark Burgin's trial before immediately charging him in the theft of $45,000 worth of jewelry from a nearby Franklin jeweler.Burgin had been on trial for the 2009 knifepoint robbery of a man at a truck stop.