United States v. Edward Lopez

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

Defendant Edward Lopez appeals from a judgment of conviction, after a non-jury trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York before Lloyd F. MacMahon, J., on two counts of possession of the contents of stolen mail in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1708. 1 The sole issue on appeal is whether the district court should have granted appellant’s motion to dismiss both counts of the indictment on the ground that the Government’s evidence failed to establish that the letters, whose contents defendant allegedly had in his possession, were stolen…