Is possession of recently stolen property sufficient to support a criminal charge?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Williams v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, 71 Cal.2d 1144, 81 Cal.Rptr. 761 (Cal. 1969):
The answer must be no; the mere fact of possession of recently stolen property does Not provide the basis for a reasonable inference either that the possessor was the one who stole the property or that the possessor knew that it had been stolen, and thus cannot be sufficient to support a conviction (e.g., People v. Wissenfeld, Supra,
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