Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Angel VILLASENOR, aka Pepito, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-06-15
Citations: 484 F. App'x 175
Docket Number: No. 10-10273
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Angel VILLASENOR, aka Pepito, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before: GOULD; TALLMAN, and BEA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 484
Pages: 175–177

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Angel VILLASENOR, aka Pepito, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 10-10273.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted June 13, 2012.
Filed June 15, 2012.
USSAC-Office of the U.S. Attorney, Sacramento, CA, William S. Wong, Assistant U.S., for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Karyn H. Bucur, Esquire, Karyn H. Bu-cur Attorney at Law, Laguna Hills, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before: GOULD; TALLMAN, and BEA, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Defendant-Appellant Jose Villaseñor was convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California of one count of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, and MDMA (also known as "ecstasy"), and two counts of using a telephone to facilitate a drug trafficking conspiracy, both federal crimes. We AFFIRM his conviction.
Villaseñor contends on appeal that the evidence at trial proved the existence of two separate conspiracies — one in California and one in Ohio — but that Villase-ñor had no knowledge of or participation in the Ohio conspiracy and so could not have been convicted of participating in the combined conspiracy. This is contradicted by the testimony at trial. Villaseñor's co-conspirator, Mario Diaz, testified that Vil-laseñor sold Diaz a car with a hidden compartment for transporting drugs. When Villaseñor asked Diaz why Diaz wanted the car, Diaz testified: "I told [Villaseñor] that I need a reliable, dependent car for long distance because I wanted it to travel out of state." Thus, there was sufficient evidence to show that Villaseñor knowingly participated in an out-of-state drug distribution ring. Based on this evidence, and granting all reasonable inferences to the government, see United States v. Stanton, 501 F.3d 1093, 1100 (9th Cir.2007), the jury could have reasonably inferred that Villaseñor and Diaz engaged in the single, multi-state conspiracy of which he was convicted.
Villaseñor contends that the conviction must be reversed because the indictment charged Villaseñor with participating in a conspiracy "to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine and marijuana and MDMA [commonly known as ecstasy]," but the government presented no evidence that Villaseñor distributed MDMA. Villase-ñor's claim fails because, in a conspiracy case, the law is clear that "[t]he government may charge in the conjunctive form that which the statutes denounce disjunc-tively, and evidence supporting any one of the charges will support a guilty verdict." United States v. Abascal, 564 F.2d 821, 832 (9th Cir.1977).
Finally, Villaseñor contends that the use of the Federal Rule of Evidence 902(11) self-authentication procedure and the admission of the subscriber record violated his Confrontation Clause rights. We decline to decide the merits of this issue. Even assuming constitutional error, any error would have been harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. See United States v. Norwood, 603 F.3d 1063, 1068 (9th Cir.2010). There was substantial evidence showing conclusively that Villaseñor was the subscriber of the relevant phone number, including: a T-Mobile receipt for the relevant phone number, containing Villase-ñor's name, discovered at his home; testimony that the voice heard in calls to that phone number was Villaseñor's; a business card showing that Villaseñor used that phone number; and a phone seized at Vil-laseñor's home containing a cellphone SIM card showing the phone number in question.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.
. For the same reason, Villaseñor's claim that a variance occurred between indictment and proof fails. If the evidence supports the existence of a single conspiracy, then there could not have been any variance between indictment and conviction.