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by rosser 5495 days ago
Isn't possession of stolen property prima facie proof of guilt of ... possession of stolen property?
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Is buying stolen property, which you seller does not tell you is stolen, over Craig's List equivalent to stealing the item? Should the buyer be jailed?
No. The police possess a great deal of stolen property. The entire police force would collapse into a blue hole if they had to arrest everybody in possession of stolen property. The crime is knowing it is stolen and having no intent to return it.
Yeah.. that was pretty much what I was going for, there.