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WRIGHT v. NIX

No. 90-2004SI.

928 F.2d 270 (1991)

Duane E. WRIGHT, Appellant, v. Crispus C. NIX, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Rapp, Waterloo, Iowa, for appellant.

Thomas D. McGrane, Des Moines, Iowa, for appellee.

Before ARNOLD, and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judges, and FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Wright appeals the district court's1 denial of his petition for habeas relief on the grounds that the state improperly excluded two non-white jurors from his venire panel. We conclude that Wright has failed to show cause for not directly raising this claim at his trial or in the appeal of his conviction by failing to show that his trial counsel's assistance was ineffective. Thus, we affirm the district...

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