I suggest that you seek a second legal opinion. You're in a civil case, not a criminal case. So, a judge is not going to feel sorry for you enough to rule against the person you sold stolen property to(regardless of whether you knew it or not). There are many people in this world who would not stand by and let you sell them stolen property without inflicting some serious payback on you and/or your family. Appreciate that you're only being threatened with a lawsuit and do the right thing.
Yea doing that but law is law in any court been told... No need to feel sorry by the Judge just looking for legal justice as per the law is all..
As for your comment about inflicting seious payback we really don't want to go down that road......As for the right thing well unfortuanetly the "right thing/right person" is in Jail so we can't really do the right thing just what we can do as victims really right now...