Judge Judy Gives a Crash Course in Finders Keepers

Finding something valuable doesn’t necessarily mean you get to keep it — and Judge Judy has a $4,000 example ready to make the point.

Judge Judy Sheindlin walks an evasive defendant through the legal concept of larceny using a hypothetical lost engagement ring. Once you know who owns what you found and deliberately keep it anyway, she explains, the situation looks very different.
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