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(i) Has the purpose of depriving the owner of the property; or

(ii) Willfully or knowingly uses, conceals, or abandons the property
in such manner as to deprive the owner of the property; or

(iii) Uses, conceals, or abandons the property knowing such use,
concealment, or abandonment probably will deprive the owner of the property.

(2) The requisite knowledge may be inferred in the case of a person in
the business of buying or selling goods who:

(i) Is found in possession or control of property stolen from two or
more persons on separate occasions; or

(ii) During the year preceding the criminal possession charged, has
acquired stolen property in a separate transaction; or

(iii) Being a person in the business of buying or selling property of
the sort possessed; acquired it for a consideration which he knew was far below its
reasonable value.

(3) In any prosecution for theft by possession of stolen property under
this section, it is not a defense that:

(i) The person who stole the property has not been convicted,
apprehended, or identified; or

(ii) The defendant stole or participated in the stealing of the

property, or

(iii) The stealing of the property did not occur in this State.

(4) A person who criminally possesses stolen property and a person who
has stolen the property are not accomplices in theft for the purpose of any rule of
evidence requiring corroboration of the testimony of an accomplice, unless the person
who criminally possesses the property had participated in the stealing.

(d) A person commits the offense of theft when he obtains control over
property of another which he knows to have been lost or mislaid, or to have been
delivered under a mistake as to the identity of the recipient or nature or amount of
the property if he:

(1) Knows or learns the identity of the owner or knows, or is aware of, or
learns of a reasonable method of identifying the owner; and

(2) Fails to take reasonable measures to restore the property to the
owner; and

(3) Has the purpose of depriving the owner permanently of the use or
benefit of the property either when he obtains the property, or at any later time.

(e) A person commits the offense of theft when he obtains the services of
another which are available only for compensation by.

 

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