State of Arizona v. Dennis Johnson
Opinion
Opinion
Fletcher, J.
United States Border Patrol Agent Dennis Johnson timely appeals his convictions for sexual assault and kidnapping. We affirm, holding that the district court: (1) did not abuse its discretion in answering a question from the jury during its deliberations; (2) did not abuse its discretion in admitting testimony of prior consistent statements under Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B); (3) properly rejected a Sixth Amendment claim that the government had acted in bad faith in deporting aliens who might have been material witnesses; and (4) properly refused to dismiss the kidnapping charge as unsupported by the evidence.
I. Background
Blanca Amaya-Flores, a citizen of El Salvador, testified that she entered the United States illegally on September 28, 2000, with a group of five men. They crossed the border on foot at an unspecified location near Douglas, Arizona, and then obtained a car. After driving for about thirty minutes, they were stopped by the United States Border Patrol in Tombstone, Arizona. Agent Sandi Gol-dhamer, Agent-in-Training Daniel McClafferty, and defendant Johnson, the acting supervisor that night, were involved in the stop.