United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's conviction for violating 18 U.S.C. section 1709, which provided for felony penalties for a U.S. Postal Service employee entrusted with mail who "steals, abstracts, or removes from any such letter, package, bag, or mail, any article or thing contained therein . . . .", is affirmed where the statute, in prohibiting Postal Employees from removing contents from mailed items, contained no specific intent requirement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/02/2010
• Published 08/02/2010

Judges

• William C. Canby, Jr.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christine S. Bautista, Gia Kim