Opinion ID: 466309
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Heading: Jenkins' Claim

Text: 23 Jenkins asserts that the deposition testimony was powerfully incriminating as to him within the meaning of Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123, 135, 88 S.Ct. 1620, 1627, 20 L.Ed.2d 476 (1968). Because White did not testify at the trial, Jenkins contends that he was denied his sixth amendment right of confrontation when the deposition testimony was admitted. Examination of White's testimony, however, shows that no portion of it directly implicated Jenkins, as required for a successful Bruton claim. Jenkins is never mentioned. It is only in the context of the other evidence of guilt presented by the government that the statements tend to implicate Jenkins in any way; even then, the reference to him is oblique. See United States v. Brooklier, 685 F.2d 1208, 1218 (9th Cir.1982) (per curiam), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1206, 103 S.Ct. 1194, 75 L.Ed.2d 439 (1983); see also United States v. Wright, 742 F.2d 1215, 1223 (9th Cir.1984); United States v. Burreson, 643 F.2d 1344, 1349 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 454 U.S. 830 (1981). Because White's testimony did not directly implicate Jenkins, the Bruton claim fails.