United States Tenth Circuit

To sustain a postal service officer's or employee's conviction under 18 U.S.C. section 1709 for removing the contents of mail, the government is not required to prove a defendant possessed the specific intent to convert the contents to her own use.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2006
• Published 08/08/2006

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, ANDERSON, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Submitted on the briefs.  Raymond P. Moore, Federal Public Defender, Warren R. Williamson, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellant., William J. Leone, United States Attorney, Linda A. McMahan, Assistant United States Attorney, John M. Hutchins, Assistant United States Attorney, Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellee.