18 U.S.C. § 2115
Post office
Whoever forcibly breaks into or attempts to break into any post office, or any building used in whole or in part as a post office, with intent to commit in such post office, or building or part thereof, so used, any larceny or other depredation, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 152
cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1950–2025 · leading case: Busic v. United States, 446 U.S. 398 (1980).
Busic v. United States, 446 U.S. 398 (1980). “[10] For example, the Government notes that under such a holding a person who breaks into a Post Office in violation of 18 U. S. C. § 2115 , which contains no enhancement provision, could receive an extra 10 years under § 924 (c) for using a gun to shoot the lock off.”
United States v. Shawn Jackson, 347 F.3d 598 (6th Cir. 2003). “Defendant-appellant Shawn Jackson was convicted of one count of post office robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2115 . During jury selection, the government exercised a peremptory challenge to exclude Anthony Turner, who at the time was the only African-American on the jury…”
United States v. Thomas Cameron Kincade, 379 F.3d 813 (9th Cir. 2004). “§§ 1952 (a)(2), 1958-59, 1962; breaking and entering into a post office, 18 U.S.C. § 2115 ; cruelty to seamen on a vessel in the jurisdiction of the United States, 18 U.”
Robert Eugene Kennedy v. United States, 330 F.2d 26 (9th Cir. 1964). “There were two cases from the District of Nebraska, one charging him with uttering a forged money order and the other charging him with breaking and entering a Post Office with intent to commit larceny, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2115 . Two more cases charging violation of 18 U.”
United States v. Jack Eugene Lampson, 627 F.2d 62 (7th Cir. 1980). “On June 29, 1978, Lampson and Robert Qualls, Lampson’s nephew, were indicted in a two-count indictment for forcible entry into a post office and theft of mail, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2115 1 and 1708. 2 Following pretrial motions, the case was set for trial on October 23,…”
United States v. Stephen Kramer, 289 F.2d 909 (2d Cir. 1961). “§ 371 , in conspiring with others, in the Eastern District of New York, to break and enter into the United States post office at Wilton, Connecticut, with intent to commit larceny and other depredations, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2115 . Count II made a similar charge with…”
United States v. Kimball, 25 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 1994). “Aaron Kimball was charged in a single count indictment with burglarizing a United States Post Office in North Waterboro, Maine, on October 2, 1992, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2115 and 2. Kimball moved to suppress 1) physical evidence seized from the car in which he was riding…”
Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957). “18 U. S. C. §2115 : “Whoever forcibly breaks into or attempts to break into any post office, or any building used in whole or in part as a post office, with intent to commit in such post office, or building, or part thereof, so used, any larceny or other depredation, shall be…”
United States v. Antonio Pino Palafox, 764 F.2d 558 (9th Cir. 1985). “The Court contrasted the entry provision of the Bank Robbery Act with “a very similar provision relating to post office offenses,” citing 18 U.S.C. § 2115 : “Whoever forcibly breaks into or attempts to break into any post office, * * with intent to commit in such post office, or…”
United States v. Dennis Guy Clark, 218 F.3d 1092 (9th Cir. 2000). “Clark also pleaded guilty to a United States Attorney’s Information charging him with (1) a postal burglary in the District of Idaho, and (2) a postal burglary in the Eastern District of California in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2115 . After the plea agreement describes the crimes…”
United States v. Mark A. Thierman, 678 F.2d 1331 (9th Cir. 1982). “CHOY, Circuit Judge: Thierman was sentenced to five years imprisonment for burglarizing a post office building, 18 U.S.C. § 2115 , and for several other offenses.”
United States v. Howard Evans Mason, Jr. & Jerry Michael Edwards, 440 F.2d 1293 (10th Cir. 1971). “The decisions dealing with § 2113(a) are of little aid, but the use of the term “therein” in 18 U.S.C. § 2115 and its predecessor, which involved the unlawful entry into buildings occupied by United States post offices, was similar to the use of that term in the indictment;…”
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