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iPhone 4 Prototype Finder Gets Probation

Posted by Unknown on from the finders-keepers-losers-send-you-to-prison dept.

think_nix writes "Brian Hogan, who found an iPhone 4 prototype last year which was sold to Gizmodo for $5,000, has been sentenced to one year of probation, 40 hours of community service, and a $250 fine. The District Attorney's office was asking for jailtime."

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  1. Here let me fix that for you. by LWATCDR · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you find a cell phone that doesn't belong to you in a bar and you turn it in to the bar owner, or you turn it into the police, or you turn it into a carrier store that the phone came from you are a finder.
    If you find cell phone that doesn't belong to you and you sell it you are a thief.

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  2. Will anyone at Gizmodo be charged? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For buying and destroying goods that were obviously not the property of the person selling them?