Legal Opinion
United States v. Burton A. Grossman and Barry S. Badolato
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 6, 1980No. 79-1032, 79-1033PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARKE, District Judge.
Appellants were convicted by a jury in the district court under 18 U.S.C. § 659 of receiving stolen property. Grossman was convicted of knowingly receiving 300 stolen Colibrí cigarette lighters shipped from Japan to Providence,.Rhode Island, by way of Charlestown, Massachusetts, aboard the M/V KISO MARU. Badolato was convicted of knowingly receiving sixty lighters from the same shipment. At trial, a Colibrí catalog was admitted into evidence to prove the retail value of the lighters. The catalog was also used to aid the jury in determining whether the actual lighters in…
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