United States v. Jennieve Rose Bunkers

THE APPEAL

The defendant-appellant Jennieve Rose Bunkers (hereinafter Bunkers) appeals from a judgment of her conviction and sentence for a postal employee’s theft of United States mailing matters in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1709 .

There is presented a single issue on appeal: Did the District Court err in denying Bunkers’ motion for the suppression as evidence of the fruits of the crime searched for and seized from her locker at the post office and her following made incriminating statement?

We conclude that the District Court did not so err and affirm.

THE FACTS

During the pertinent times subsequent to on or about January 1, 1974, Bunkers was a postal employee at the Colonial Post Office in Sacramento, California. Experienced postal inspectors were cognizant of a recurring disappearance of C.O.D. parcels at the post office and charted the time of C.O.D. package losses for a correlation thereof to the work schedules of the several employees at the post office. Through such charting, the inspectors determined that Bunkers’ work schedule coincided or correlated with the dates and times of the C.O.D. package losses. The postal inspectors, based upon that information,…