United States v. Andrew J. Sales

LAY, Chief Judge.

Andrew J. Sales was convicted by a jury on ten counts of receiving and retaining stolen United States postal orders in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641 (1982). The district court sentenced Sales to consecutive terms of imprisonment on the ten counts for a total of 55 years. On appeal from the judgment of conviction, Sales asserts, inter alia, that the consecutive sentences he received were invalid because he should have been convicted, if at all, for only one violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641.

The evidence presented at trial indicated that on or about the 24th of May, 1982,…