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Thu 11 Nov 2002Winona Ryder found guilty of theftUS: A glum Winona Ryder has been convicted of shoplifting from the Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills, California, after a sensational trial in which prosecutors repeatedly reminded jurors that the rich and famous were not above the law.The 31-year-old Oscar-nominated actress was convicted of slipping out of Saks last December with $5,500 of designer tops, handbags, hair bows and socks stuffed in her shopping bags and hidden on her person.