OPINION OF THE COURT
PER CURIAM.
The question for decision is whether the district court erred in granting a writ of habeas corpus to a state prisoner who alleged a denial of his Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury under circumstances in which the trial judge ruled, as a matter of law, that newspaper articles describing an abortive, mid-trial attempt to plead non vult to a New Jersey murder indictment "would not affect [the jury's] deliberations...
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