Rotisserie chicken, alcohol, urinating in a car and a purse snatching in a Catholic Church

If only I could take credit for writing this article.
Todd, thanks for pointing this out to me.
This would make a great fact pattern for a final exam.

By Nicole Klauss - Mar. 7, 2011 10:22 AM
The Arizona Republic-12 News Breaking News Team

A man who was released from a hospital after being treated for injuries from an aggravated assault with a police officer was arrested on charges of stealing a purse from a woman who was kneeling in prayer at a downtown Mesa church.

Mesa police said Monday that the 51-year-old woman was kneeling and praying in front of a pew at the Queen of Peace Catholic Church in the 100 block of North Macdonald Street in Mesa, when a man snatched her purse. 

The woman heard someone ruffling through papers that were on the pew beside her, and she turned to see the man grab her purse, police said. 

The woman tried to grab it back, but the robber pushed her down and fled. The woman sustained injuries to her knee. 

Police located found a man matching the description of the robber in an alley about a block away. 

The woman's purse was recovered in a nearby dumpster. 

Ronald Slavin, 44, was booked into Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of robbery. Police said he had walked out of Arizona Regional Hospital, where he was being treated for injuries sustained during an assault on a police officer that had occurred after a vehicle burglary the night before. 

The owner left his vehicle running so he could run into his home on the 1000 block of N. Pasadena Street near Brown Road. When he returned to his vehicle he found Slavin sitting in his vehicle with a rotisserie chicken and alcohol. 

The owner asked Slavin to get out of his vehicle and Slavin responded that he would when he was finished urinating. 

A Mesa police officer arrived on scene and recognized Slavin from an incident earlier in the day at a Goodwill thrift store located on the 300 block of E. Brown Road, where he found Slavin defecating in one of the dressing rooms. The business didn't press charges because Slavin cleaned his mess up. 

The officer tried to arrest Slavin at the scene of the vehicle burglary, but when he reached to grab a blanket from the trunk of his police car, Slavin slammed the trunk on the officer's head. 

The officer sustained minor head injuries. He took Slavin to the hospital for minor injuries and intoxication. Slavin claimed he had drunk 30 beers, police said.

Analyze Mr. Slavin's potential liability under applicable tort and criminal law...