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DUKES v. WAITKEVITCH

No. 75-1179.

536 F.2d 469 (1976)

George DUKES, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Walter WAITKEVITCH et al., Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 10, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara A. H. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., and John J. Irwin, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Crim. Bureau, Boston, Mass., were on brief for respondents-appellants.

Edward F. Haber, Boston, Mass., for petitioner-appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Petitioner, a black defendant charged with a violent crime involving white victims, sought a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the failure of the state trial judge to question prospective jurors on the subject of racial prejudice violated his constitutional rights as enunciated in Ham v. South Carolina, 409 U.S. 524, 93 S.Ct. 848, 35 L.Ed.2d 46 (1973). The district court held that the factual circumstances...

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