What is the difference between the crime of receiving or buying stolen property and the theft of it?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Orman, H043563 (Cal. App. 2017):
purposes of equal protection. Theft and the crime of receiving or buying stolen property are entirely different crimes, even if the stolen property may be of the same nature. (People v. Gutierrez (2016) 245 Cal.App.4th 393, 404 ["persons convicted of different crimes are not similarly situated for equal protection purposes"].)
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