United States v. Ray A. Lewis

ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-appellant Ray Lewis (“Lewis”) appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Amon, /.), convicting him, following a bench trial, of two counts of obstructing the mails. Lewis contends that he was improperly denied a jury trial in light of the fact that the maximum potential aggregate sentence for his two charges exceeded six months. The district court, however, held that, for the purpose of determining a defendant’s right to a jury trial, penalties should not be aggregated. Because Congress has given no…