United States v. Raymond Boyd, Jr.

BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Raymond Boyd, Jr. appeals from a jury conviction of breaking into a mail receptacle (Count I) and unlawfully abstracting a letter (Count II) in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1705 and 1708, respectively. He received consecutive sentences of one year’s imprisonment on Count I and three years on Count II.

Boyd bases his appeal on the following contentions: (1) the prosecutor, in his closing argument to the jury, violated Boyd’s fifth amendment privilege by commenting on the defendant’s silence after arrest; (2) the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury…