United States v. Gilberto Sanchez

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Gilberto Sanchez appeals from the sentence imposed upon him following his conditional guilty plea to a charge of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) (1994). Sanchez first argues that the district court 1 erred in denying his motion to suppress the methamphetamine seized following what the court determined to be a consensual search. Second, he argues that the jury selection process employed below violated the Sixth Amendment’s fair-cross-section requirement by systematically excluding various racial and…