United States v. Portrait of Wally

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the doctrine applies to goods recovered by government officials “charged by law” with acting on the owner’s behalf.
• “It seems obvious that stolen property, recaptured by the police, no longer has the status of stolen goods but, rather, is held by the police in trust for, or for the account of, the owner.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).