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111382P.pdf 04/22/2013 United States v. Chevie Kehoe
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-1382
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and
Melloy, Circuit Judge]
Prisoner case - Habeas. In Young v. Bowersox, 161 F.3d 1159 (8th Cir.
1998), this court rejected the argument that an ineffective assistance
counsel claim based on a Batson error should be considered a structural
error entitled to a presumption of prejudice and determined that to
succeed on such a claim, the petitioner must demonstrate a reasonable
probability that the results of the proceeding would have been different;
here, in order to succeed on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel,
Kehoe must demonstrate that he suffered prejudice as a result of his
attorney's actions in striking potential jurors on the basis of their race in
violation of Georgia v. McCollum, 505 U.S. 42 (1992), and he failed to
do so.