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· 11/3/1970

Commonwealth v. Valleca

Citations

  • 263 N.E.2d 468
  • 358 Mass. 242
  • 1970 Mass. LEXIS 720

How courts have described this case

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  • defendant convicted of receiving stolen property where he demanded a fee in exchange for property’s return
  • defendant has burden of going forward with evidence that he was exempted from prosecution as an accessory after the fact by consanguinity with the principal offenders
  • attempt to sell stolen coins back to gallery from which they were stolen in return for \reward\ sufficient to support conviction as accessory after fact to breaking and entering

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Judges: Spalding, Cutter, Spiegel, Reardon, Quirico

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