United States v. Robert E. Deutsch and Alan Brooks

ALDRICH, Circuit Judge:

Defendants Brooks and Deutseh were jointly indicted in two counts for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 201(b) (3): count one for, during the period between November 16 and December 8, 1970, offering to pay a postal employee the sum of $50. for each credit card he should abstract from the mail and deliver, and count two, for giving a postal employee $50. “with intent to induce [him] to do an act in violation of his lawful duty.” Defendants were found guilty by a jury on both counts and given concurrent sentences. They appeal.

To some extent the evidence was in sharp dispute. The…