Ramos

MEMORANDUM **

Ernesto Ramos appeals his jury conviction and sentence for conspiracy to distribute 500 or more grams of methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 , 846. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and 18 U.S.C. § 3742 (a) and we affirm. Because the parties are familiar with the factual and procedural history of this case, we do not recount it here.

The district court did not commit reversible error when it refused to allow attorney voir dire concerning bias against Mexican-Americans. 1 Ramos was charged with an ordinary drug crime and the matters at issue in trial did not involve allegations of racial or ethnic prejudice. See Ristaino v. Ross, 424 U.S. 589, 597 , 96 S.Ct. 1017 , 47 L.Ed.2d 258 (1976) (recognizing the right to question prospective jurors concerning racial or ethnic prejudice when such issues are “inextricably bound up with the conduct of the trial”). Nor did other circumstances raise a “reasonable possibility” that racial or ethnic prejudice might influence the jury. See Rosales-Lopez v. United States, 451 U.S. 182, 191 , 101 S.Ct. 1629 , 68 L.Ed.2d 22 (1981) (plurality opinion). The prosecution did not present evidence that Ramos…