Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Johnny Roy FOOTRACER, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2001-06-06
Citations: 16 F. App'x 595
Docket Number: No. 97-10528; D.C. No. CR-96-00404-1-ROS
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Johnny Roy FOOTRACER, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 16
Pages: 595–596

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Johnny Roy FOOTRACER, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 97-10528.
D.C. No. CR-96-00404-1-ROS.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Feb. 26, 2001.
Decided June 6, 2001.
Before PREGERSON, BRUNETTI, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Johnny Roy Footracer challenges the sua sponte transfer of his criminal trial from the District of Arizona's Prescott Division to its Phoenix Division as violating tas Sixth Amendment right, as articulated in Duren v. Missouri, 439 U.S. 357, 99 S.Ct. 664, 58 L.Ed.2d 579 (1979), to a jury venire composed of a fair cross-section of the community. In our original opinion, a majority of the panel found no violation and affirmed Footracer's conviction.
On April 26, 2000, we granted Footracer's petition for rehearing. We subsequently granted Footracer's motion to supplement the record on appeal with information relating to the trial court's denial of Footracer's motion to return his trial to Prescott. We allowed the United States a response, and Footracer a reply. The rehearing argument was limited to Footracer's claim surrounding the location of his trial.
After rehearing on February 26, 2001, we remanded the action to the district court for the limited purpose of obtaining, from the records of its clerk, certain information pertaining to Footracer's Duren claim. Specifically, we asked the district court to provide the following information: (1) the total number of criminal cases arising within the Prescott Division for the years 1992-2000; (2) the number of those cases in which the defendant was a Native American; (3) the number of those cases actually tried in Prescott, Arizona; (4) the number of those cases tried in Phoenix, Arizona; and (5) the number of those cases which were transferred sua sponte for trial from Prescott to Phoenix.
On April 2, 2001, the Clerk of the Court for the District of Arizona filed the requested information, to the extent it was available. Upon reviewing the provided statistical information, we conclude that Footracer's Sixth Amendment challenge must fail because he cannot show, under Duren, that criminal trials involving Native American defendants were systematically transferred from the Prescott Division to the Phoenix Division so as to deny Footracer a jury selected from a fair cross-section of the community,
AFFIRMED
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