I wouldn't call it hedging bets. I thought it was giving a jury the opportunity to decide the correct crime to convict a defendant for.

We'll see what kind of victim it was, if it was a crime of opportunity or if someone who went out to lure a child.

He turned to crime, and we had an opportunity to stop it. He was robbing banks with a gun. He could have easily hurt anyone — a bank teller, a policeman. He could have been hurt as well.

He turned to crime, and we had an opportunity to stop it.

This could be a crime of opportunity where someone saw it, hot-wired it and drove it off,

It's giving everybody an opportunity to do some spring cleaning.