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072882P.pdf 08/19/2009 Leon Taylor v. Donald Roper
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-2882
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Bye and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - habeas. A state court's fact findings are presumed
correct unless rebutted by clear and convincing evidence, and Taylor
failed to rebut the finding that the state's peremptory jury strikes in
the selection of the jury for the guilt phase of his murder prosecution
were race neutral and did not violate Batson; with respect to the penalty
phase strikes, the state courts' determination that the strikes were race
neutral was not contrary to clear and convincing evidence and did not
involve an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law.