What is the test for returning stolen property to its rightful owner?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Howard, 122 Misc.2d 26, 469 N.Y.S.2d 871 (N.Y. City Ct. 1983):
(T)o accomplish the prompt return of stolen property to a victim entitled to the possession of that property and to establish an extrajudicial administrative procedure which would, at the same time, protect a defendant's right to inspect the property and preserve legally sufficient evidence for introduction at trial.
(People v. Lazarus, supra at 788, 452 N.Y.S.2d 305).
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