United States v. Redd, 26655.
Decision Date | 17 May 1971 |
Docket Number | No. 26655.,26655. |
Citation | 438 F.2d 335 |
Parties | UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Eddie Lee REDD, Defendant-Appellant. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Ninth Circuit |
Charles Miller, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellant.
James L. Browning, U. S. Atty., James L. Hazard, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.
Before MERRILL, KOELSCH and WRIGHT, Circuit Judges.
Certiorari Denied May 17, 1971. See 91 S.Ct. 1681.
Redd appeals from a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 659 for knowing possession of property stolen from an interstate shipment of goods. On appeal Redd challenges the jury instructions. This court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We affirm.
Appellant raises three issues: first, that the jury should not have been instructed that they could infer appellant's knowledge if they found that he possessed the property while it was recently stolen; second, that giving the instruction compelled appellant to incriminate himself or shifted the burden of proof; and third, that the five-week interval between the theft and the time of appellant's possession was too long to make it recent.
Appellant's first two contentions are without merit. McAbee v. United States, 434 F.2d 361 (9th Cir., 1970); Dunson v. United States, 404 F.2d 447, 449 (9th Cir. 1968); Glavin v. United States, 396 F.2d 725, 729, 730 (9th Cir. 1968).
Appellant's final contention must also fail. Whether possession was sufficiently recent to justify an inference of knowledge is essentially a question of fact for the jury to resolve before the inference comes into play. United States v. Gordon, 421 F.2d 1068, 1073, n. 1 (5th Cir. 1970) ( ); United States v. Prujansky, 415 F.2d 1045, 1051 (6th Cir. 1969) (24 hours); Lee v. United States, 363 F.2d 469, 474, 475 (8th Cir. 1966) (five months).
The court below properly cautioned the jury as to the interpretation of the term recently:
It must be noted that in this case the inference did not stand alone. The appellant's clandestine sale of the...
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