The Fourth Circuit has affirmed that a Virginia conviction for receipt of stolen property is a crime involving moral turpitude. “What makes Virginia’s receipt offense morally culpable is the receiver’s knowledge that the property he possesses was stolen from its rightful owner and his dishonest intent to continue acting adversely to the owner’s property interest.”

The full text of Solis-Flores v. Bondi can be found here: https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/221147A.P.pdf

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