Legal Opinion
United States v. Norman Melendez
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 2, 1994No. 1496, Docket 93-1753PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge: 1
Defendant-appellant Norman Melendez was a postal worker who stole over $700,000 of public money from a branch of the United States Postal Service, and thereafter gave away large sums of money to friends and relatives. Following his plea of guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641, Melendez (a) challenges the upward adjustment of his sentence for breach of trust, arguing that many other postal employees had easy access to the money he took; and (b) challenges the upward adjustment of his sentence for an aggravated role in the offense, arguing that the district court…
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