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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. 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?

  2. Gizmodo: Handling stolen goods by bool2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The whole thing seems a bit one sided. Given that Gizmodo knowingly paid for stolen goods, where is their equivalent fine, community service and probation?

  3. Re:Here let me fix that for you. by Richard_at_work · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think you need to actually review a lot of the understanding you are basing your comment on...

    One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another person not entitled thereto, without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to him, is guilty of theft.

    CAL. PEN. CODE 485 : California Code - Section 485

    http://www.shouselaw.com/appropriation-lost-property.html