What constitutes a crime of receiving stolen property?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Pray, H045154 (Cal. App. 2018):
5. We note that the crime of receiving stolen property is complete when the defendant takes possession of property with knowledge it is stolen. (People v. Grant (2003) 113 Cal.App.4th 579, 595.) Defendant presumably received and possessed the stolen check prior to chewing it up.
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