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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.