Some things are easy to prove ownership but jewelry isn't one of them. All he had to do was say it was his mother's and the pawnshop is off the hook. The pawnshop would be liable if the items were on a list of stolen property given to pawnshops, but not otherwise. Some states, like Florida, require the victim purchase the stolen items, the theory being the criminal will ultimately have to pay damages including the cost of getting the stolen items back. Rarely works in real life.
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