Can a defendant be convicted of possessing stolen property even if the vehicles and parts were not stolen?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Deering, E054053 (Cal. App. 2013):

purpose other than his own enjoyment of it.' [Citation.]" (People v. Creath, ibid.) Accordingly, even if the vehicles and parts were not "stolen" in the most conventional sense of that word, defendant could nevertheless be convicted of possessing stolen property even if he had no intent to deprive the owners of the vehicles when he took them to perform repairs but then wrongfully retained the vehicles entrusted to him for repairs and/or misappropriated parts removed from the vehicles.

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