Opinion ID: 852621
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Other Constitutional and Evidentiary Issues

Text: Highler raises two other issues. First, he argues that he was denied a trial by a jury of his peers in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and in violation of Indiana Code section 33-28-4-3 (2004) because there was only one African American on the panel of 47 and according to the 2000 U.S. census 17.4 percent of Allen County was African American. The Court of Appeals correctly held that a statistical anomaly in a single venire presents no issue. Highler, 834 N.E.2d at 189 (citing Azania v. State, 778 N.E.2d 1253, 1257 (Ind.2002)). Highler also contends that a 9-1-1 tape was erroneously admitted into evidence because its prejudicial effect outweighed any relevance. Highler made no claim that the tape's admission infringed his confrontation rights under Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 124 S.Ct. 1354, 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004). See also Davis v. Washington, ___ U.S. ___, ___, 126 S.Ct. 2266, 2269, 165 L.Ed.2d 224 (2006) (statements by an alleged victim to a 9-1-1 operator that name her attacker were not testimonial because her primary purpose was to enable police assistance to meet an ongoing emergency). We summarily affirm the holding of the Court of Appeals on these issues. Indiana Appellate Rule 58(A)(2).