Rendelman

MEMORANDUM *

Scott Lewis Rendelman appeals his conviction for five counts of issuing threats against the President in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 871 . We affirm.

I

Rendelman’s letter to Judge Talmadge Jones does not implicate the Fourth Amendment because it was not marked “confidential” and therefore could be processed in the ordinary course as regular mail. We do not need to decide whether opening Rendelman’s other letters violated his privacy rights, because they would inevitably have been discovered in any event. Rendelman argues that each of the addressees, as well as the Secret Service which receives threatening mail sent to the President, would not have taken the threats seriously enough to turn the letters over to law enforcement because they knew of Rendelman’s penchant for writing threatening letters. However, the intended recipients were all government officials responsible for public safety; one was a deputy district attorney who had previously prosecuted Rendelman for writing threatening letters. By definition, these letters would have been discovered had they reached the intended recipients.

II

Rendelman did not object to the testimony of Officer Eck at trial. We…