A lawyer is on trail for attempting to sell and profit off a stolen painting that a former client brought to him in a plastic bag.

From the AP (via The SF Chronicle):

At first, nothing seemed out of place when Michael Bakwin returned to his home in the Berkshires after he and his family went away for Memorial Day weekend in 1978.

But the next day, Bakwin’s wife walked into the dining room and saw that seven paintings had been stripped from the walls, including a still life by the French Impressionist Paul Cezanne now worth tens of millions of dollars. The theft set off an international investigation that led to Monaco, Geneva, London and - finally - to a retired lawyer.

Robert Mardirosian, 73, of Falmouth went to trial Tuesday on federal charges of possessing and transporting stolen goods. He’s accused of trying to sell the paintings, which had been stolen by one of his clients.