United States v. Marco Pineda

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Marco Pineda (“Pineda”), was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). He was sentenced to 115 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a fine of $100. Pineda'ap-pealed the district court’s judgment, arguing: (1) the court violated his right to a fair jury trial under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it struck the sole Hispanic member of the jury for cause and replaced him with an alternate during trial, and (2) the court committed procedural…