Rowe

Jerome Fitzgerald Rowe appeals a jury’s verdict finding him guilty of committing carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119 (1994), and of using a firearm during a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924 (e) (1994). Rowe contends that the district court erroneously refused to suppress a confession that was allegedly procured from him as the result of an unreasonable delay between his arrest and arraignment. In addition, he claims that the district court abused its discretion when it limited his cross-examination of a key prosecution witness. Finding *930 that neither of these assertions merits reversal, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

At approximately 3:30 a.m. on December 29, 1993, while Cynthia Wilson was stopped at a red light in Los Angeles, California, a man with a blue steel handgun approached the 1988 beige Ford Taurus that she was driving. The man displayed his weapon to Wilson and demanded the vehicle, and she promptly exited the car. Wilson observed the caijacker drive the Taurus, which she had borrowed from her employer, north on Redondo Avenue, and she then ran home to call the police.

Shortly thereafter, Los Angeles Police Department (“LAPD”) Officers Watcheter…