Frugoli

MEMORANDUM **

Kerry L. Frugoli, a State of California prisoner, appeals the district court’s denial of his habeas corpus petition, which challenged his conviction for battery with great bodily injury. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254 . We affirm.

Frugoli’s sole claim before us is that when the state trial court allowed the jurors to sign requests that their personal juror identifying information be conditionally sealed, he was denied the fair trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

We see no great significance to the argument over whether the California courts *567 precisely followed the requirements of California law when they allowed the signing of the forms. 1 The important issue is whether there was a violation of the United States Constitution that resulted in error 2 of a magnitude sufficient to require issuance of the writ. Here, even assuming that there was error of constitutional magnitude, it is apparent that the error was harmless. 3 The evidence against Frugoli was overwhelming, and there is simply no reason to believe that the jury’s determination was affected by the claimed form-signing error. If there was any error at all, it did not have “…