Andrea Russi Answers Legal Questions in “Gizmodo” Case

The Wall Street Journal, Digits, April 27, 2010 by Shira Ovide
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/27/qa-legal-questions-in-the-iphone-case/?KEYWORDS=Berkeley

“There’s a penal code section, California penal code 485, which says if you find lost property and you have some ability to find out who the owner is, you have an obligation to do that. I think the guy who found the phone and knew whose phone it was, could be charged with theft. Gizmodo, I think, could be charged with receipt of stolen property. In order to charge them, [Gizmodo] would have to know the phone was stolen.”