State v. Philbrick

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Throughout 1987, a rash of burglaries plagued Glenburn, Levant, and Exeter. Bruce Stillings, a suspect arrested for the crimes, told the police that defendant Richard Philbrick had received some of the stolen property. The police obtained a search warrant for Philbrick’s residence and outbuildings, specifying four items to be seized. During the search, however, police seized over 70 items that they believed had been stolen in the burglaries.

In 1988 Philbrick was indicted by a grand jury on three counts of receiving stolen property. At trial in the Superior Court…