United States v. Charles L. Lamb

How courts have described this case

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• noting that, although police patrolmen, firemen, probation officers, and game wardens may be at lower end of their respective department organizational charts, they occupy positions of trust
• defendant mail carrier who took oath to uphold the law abused position of public trust when defendant embezzled United States mail
• “the government has an interest in police integrity which must be considered in evaluating the reasonableness of investigative searches of police officers.”
• \a position of trust is characterized by access or authority over valuable things\
• “a govern- ment employee who takes an oath to uphold the law (as does a mail carrier) and who performs a government function for a public purpose such as delivery of the U.S. mail, is in a position of trust”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).