Ninth Circuit -- USA V. SALVADOR HERNANDEZ-ESTRADA

Where several localities supplement their jury lists to ensure a fair cross-section, this does not per se require an adjacent locality to do so.

Disparity of 7.7% is allowable.

Those who declined to identify their race are not a significant enough number to reach the threshold, so they need not be considered.

Clerk's Office violation of statute in not sending in reporting forms and disqualifying venirepersons who expressed doubt about their ability to understand English, while errors, aren't significant enough to merit reversal.

Deft bears burden of proof of establishing that violations of JSSA are substantial enough to frustrate purposes of the Act.

Court's violation of the statute in not forcing jurors to identify ethnicity wasn't reversible error.

Chief K, Concurring -- 7.7% threshold is bad statistics, given the small percentages of certain ethnic groups.

USA V. SALVADOR HERNANDEZ-ESTRADA