United States v. Charles E. Brownlee

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

Charles E. Brownlee, a former postal employee, appeals his conviction for delaying and opening mail entrusted to him to deliver in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1703(a). We affirm.

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On September 28, 1989, Charles Brown-lee was working as a letter carrier at the Garfield Park Post Office in Chicago, Illinois. A postal inspector as part of an ongoing investigation of Charles Brownlee had constructed a “test letter” which contained $140.00 in food stamps and a white address card. Concealed within the food stamps was a radio transmitting device which allowed the letter to be…