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993462P.pdf   02/23/2001  William Weaver  v.  Michael Bowersox
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  99-3462
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   Prisoner case - habeas. District court erred when it found Weaver's 
   Fourteenth Amendment rights under the Equal Protection Clause 
   were violated when the state used two peremptory challenges to 
   strike two black venire persons as Weaver failed to establish a 
   Batson claim under the applicable standards of review of the state 
   courts' findings; case remanded for consideration of claims not 
   reached in the district court's opinion; dissent by Judge Morris S. Arnold.