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113046P.pdf   12/12/2013  Richard Strong  v.  Donald Roper
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-3046
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Gruender, Circuit Judge] Prisoner case - habeas. Denial of Strong's challenges to the prosecutor's peremptory strikes of two African-American venirepersons did not violate his equal protection rights; admission of murder victim's out-of-court statements to a police officer regarding an assault she suffered at Strong's hands did not violate his confrontation clause rights; claim of ineffective assistance of counsel at the penalty phase rejected; prosecutor's use of a PowerPoint presentation during the penalty phase proceedings did not deprive Strong of his right to a fundamentally fair trial.