@RHuckster said:
But, anyways, that's probably one of the only times I'd think "I didn't know that." excuse would truly be considered in court. Luckily, I didn't see if it would work because she didn't call the cops on me.
I think that's referred to as the "reasonable man" criteria in legal contexts in the U.S. As in "Would a reasonable man be expected to know that it was a private residence, or could a reasonable man think the store/restaurant trappings were for real?" Of course, the question of what a "reasonable man" would do is not cut and dried, but that's why we have judges and juries and appeals courts and precedents and the first cut rule: "The opposite of what blakey would do."