(a)Every person who buys or receives any motor vehicle, as defined in Section 415 of the Vehicle Code, any trailer, as defined in Section 630 of the Vehicle Code, any special construction equipment, as defined in Section 565 of the Vehicle Code, or any vessel, as defined in Section 21 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, that has been stolen or that has been obtained in any manner constituting theft or extortion, knowing the property to be
stolen or obtained, or who conceals, sells, withholds, or aids in concealing, selling, or withholding any motor vehicle, trailer, special construction equipment, or vessel from the owner, knowing the property to be so stolen or obtained, shall be punished by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for 16 months or two or three years or a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both, or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year or a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both.
(b)For the purposes of this section, the terms “special construction equipment” and “vessel” are limited to motorized vehicles and vessels.
Notes of Decisions
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125 in the last 5 years), 2005–2026 · leading case:
People v. Santos, 251 Cal. Rptr. 3d 483 (Cal. Ct. App. 5th 2019).
People v. Santos, 251 Cal. Rptr. 3d 483 (Cal. Ct. App. 5th 2019).
“Code, § 466 ; count 3), and buying or receiving a stolen motor vehicle with a prior conviction ( Pen. Code, §§ 496d, 666.5 ; *486 count 4).”
Jose Hernandez v. Merrick Garland, 47 F.4th 908 (9th Cir. 2022).
“Hernandez also was convicted of taking a vehicle without the owner’s permission, California Vehicle Code § 10851A, and receiving or purchasing stolen property, California Penal Code § 496d(a). For his receiving-stolen-property conviction, he was sentenced to 16 months’…”
People v. Fuentes, 375 P.3d 928 (Cal. 2016).
“(a)), and receiving stolen property (Pen. Code, § 496d, subd. (a)). The two-count felony complaint also alleged as an enhancement that defendant committed the charged offenses ‘“for the benefit of, at the direction of, and in association with .”
People v. Lara, 438 P.3d 251 (Cal. 2019).
“Our answer follows directly from DeHoyos : Defendants who had not yet been sentenced as of Proposition 47's effective date are entitled to initial sentencing under Proposition 47's amended penalty provisions, without regard to the resentencing procedures applicable to those who…”
People v. Ramon, 175 Cal. App. 4th 843 (Cal. Ct. App. 2009).
“A jury convicted him of (1) receiving a stolen vehicle (Pen. Code, § 496d) 1 ; (2) possession of a firearm by a felon (§ 12021, subd.”
People v. Russell, 2006 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 10778 (Cal. Ct. App. 2006).
“Defendant Philip Russell was convicted by jury of one count of receiving a stolen motor vehicle (Pen. Code, § 496d), 1 a felony. The jury also acquitted defendant of one count of possessing drug paraphernalia (Health & Saf.”
People v. D.B., 320 P.3d 1136 (Cal. 2014).
“(a)), possession of stolen property (Pen. Code, § 496d, subd. (a)), evading the police (Veh.”
People v. Holman, 214 Cal. App. 4th 1438 (Cal. Ct. App. 2013).
“RIF10000006, alleging two counts of receiving a stolen vehicle (Pen. Code, § 496d, subd. (a)), as well as a violation of probation in defendant’s other cases.”
People v. Nichols, 198 Cal. Rptr. 3d 227 (Cal. Ct. App. 6th 2016).
“INTRODUCTION In August 2012 defendant Daniel Lawrence Nichols pleaded no contest to the felony offense of buying or receiving a stolen motor vehicle with a prior conviction for vehicle theft (Pen.Code, §§ 496d, 666.5 ), 1 and admitted the allegation that he had one prior violent…”
People v. Stanphill, 170 Cal. App. 4th 61 (Cal. Ct. App. 2009).
“(a)); (2) receipt of a stolen car (Pen. Code, § 496d, subd. (a)); and (3) possession of methamphetamine (Health & Saf.”
In re Melvin Hiram Thomas II On Habeas Corpus, 241 Cal. Rptr. 3d 864 (Cal. Ct. App. 5th 2018).
“*748 A jury convicted Melvin Hiram Thomas II in 2003 for receiving a stolen vehicle ( Pen. Code, § 496d, subd. (a), unlabeled statutory citations refer to this code) and active participation in a criminal street gang (§ 186.”
People v. Hunter, 2006 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5791 (Cal. Ct. App. 2006).
· cites it 2× “(a)), and receiving and concealing a stolen vehicle (Pen. Code, § 496d). Hunter admitted prior convictions and was sentenced to two concurrent indeterminate prison terms of 25 years to life, with a consecutive five-year determinate term for a serious prior felony enhancement…”
— Cal. Penal Code § 496d(a) — 12 cases
Jose Hernandez v. Merrick Garland, 47 F.4th 908 (9th Cir. 2022).
“Hernandez also was convicted of taking a vehicle without the owner’s permission, California Vehicle Code § 10851A, and receiving or purchasing stolen property, California Penal Code § 496d(a). For his receiving-stolen-property conviction, he was sentenced to 16 months’…”
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