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Parties Involved:
John Glenn Espinoza
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

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FILED 

United States Coutt of Appeals 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Tenth Circufr 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) 

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Plaintiff-Appellee, ) 

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v. ) 

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JOHN GLENN ESPINOZA, ) 

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Defendant-Appellant. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

JUN 2 8 1991 

.ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 90-4163 

(D.C. No. 90-CR-23S) 

(D. Utah) 

Before LOGAN and BRORBY, Circuit Judges, and BRIMMER, District 

Judge.** 

Defendant John Glenn Espinoza pleaded guilty to knowingly 

carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking 

crime, in violation of 18 u.s.c. § 924(c). He reserved his right 

to appeal the court's denial of his motion to dismiss based on 

speedy trial grounds, and this appeal raises that issue. 

Defendant asserts that he was being released from jail on 

charges filed against him in Utah state court when he was informed 

that he could not leave because of a federal detainer. He further 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, except 

for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

** The Honorable Clarence A. Brimmer, Chief Judge, United States 

District Court for the District of Wyoming, sitting by designation. 

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alleges that he was held in federal custody from February 16, 

1990, until his arraignment before a federal magistrate on July 5, 

1990. This is the delay he alleges violated his right to a speedy 

trial. The district court adopted the following finding made by 

the magistrate who held an evidentiary hearing on the matter: 

Plaintiff in his memorandum in support of his motion 

states that he was freed on bail and checked out of the 

jail on the state charge, however, when the jail was 

served with the detainer he was placed back in jail. 

This is not evidence and is contrary to other evidence. 

No affidavit or testimony supports this conclusion. The 

defendant was a sentenced state prisoner when he was 

brought before this court on July 5, 1990. He had plead 

[sic] guilty and was sentenced by a Utah court on 

June 15, 1990 .... Prior to that time the defendant 

was totally in state custody. Defendant has offered no 

credible evidence that justifies a finding or conclusion 

that defendant was arrested at the time of the service 

of the detainer or that he was kept in custody pursuant 

to any federal process. 

IR. tab 20 at 5 (Magistrate's Report and Recommendation). 

These are fact findings subject to review under a clearly 

erroneous standard. See United States v. Maher, 919 F.2d 1482, 

1485 (10th Cir. 1990). After reviewing the record, including a 

transcript of the hearing before the magistrate, see IR. Supp., 

we find no clear error in the magistrate's finding, adopted by the 

district court, that defendant was held in state custody until his 

June 15, 1990, sentencing on the state charge. Accordingly, 

defendant's claim that he was not indicted within thirty days 

after his arrest, as required by 18 u.s.c. § 3161(b), must fail. 

Section 3161 has no application to the instant case because 

defendant was indicted before being taken into federal custody 

under the writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum on July 5. See 

United States v. Adams, 694 F.2d 200, 202 (9th Cir. 1982), cert. 

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denied, 462 U.S. 1118 (1983). The federal detainer against 

defendant while he was in state custody is not an arrest for 

purposes of§ 3161(b). See United States v. Copleyf 774 F.2d 728, 

730 (6th Cir. 1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1049 (1986). Thus we 

agree with the government that no right protected by 18 U.S.C. 

§ 3161 or protection afforded by Fed. R. Crim. P. 5 or 9 was 

denied to defendant in the instant case. 

AFFIRMED. 

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Entered for the Court 

James K. Logan 

Circuit Judge 

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