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Grounds for Being Convicted of Receiving Stolen Property

By Walin & Klarich

A California Appellate Court affirmed once again that a person convicted of theft in California cannot also be convicted of receiving stolen property when the property in question is the property of the theft. The courts have long recognized that a crime of theft and/or robbery is the taking of personal property of another. Now, if you are the individual who took that property, you cannot also be found guilty of the crime of receiving stolen property because the property in question is one in the same. In a recent decision, the California Appellate Court added carjacking to the list of thefts, where the Court held that a defendant could not be convicted of both carjacking and receipt of stolen property when the stolen property is the vehicle taken in the carjacking...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on June 10, 2009 (boomark / email).