United States v. Cameron Griffin

MEMORANDUM

Cameron Scott Griffin appeals pro se from the district court’s order denying his motion to obtain a list of juror names from his trial. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we vacate and remand to the district court.

After this court affirmed Griffin’s jury-trial conviction for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine, he filed the instant motion seeking the names of the jurors in his case in order to develop facts to support his claim that the jury engaged in improper deliberations. Griffin also filed a petition for a writ of mandamus and a motion for a hearing pursuant to Kastigar v. United States, 406 U.S. 441 , 92 S.Ct. 1653 , 32 L.Ed.2d 212 (1972). The district court denied the petition and both motions on the merits. This court recently vacated the district court’s disposition of the mandamus petition and Kastigar motion, on the ground that the court lacked jurisdiction to adjudicate their merits. See United States v. Griffin, 451 Fed.Appx. 706 (9th Cir.2011).

The district court likewise lacked jurisdiction over Griffin’s motion to obtain juror names. As this court explained in Griffin’s…