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Additionally, the Model Penal Code eliminates the asportation requirement and instead requires that the defendant " exercise unlawful control.

" The drafters noted that historically the asportation requirement distinguished larceny ( a felony ) and attempted larceny ( a misdemeanor ).

They reasoned, therefore, that asportation was an irrelevant requirement because in modern criminal law, like the Model Penal Code, the sentencing consequences between an attempted and completed crime are negligible.