TROTT, Circuit Judge.
OVERVIEW
California state prisoner James Edward Hegler appeals the district court's decision to dismiss his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for writ of habeas corpus challenging his conviction and sentence for murder. Hegler contends the district court erred by treating the violation of his derivative Sixth Amendment constitutional right to be present at the reading of trial testimony to the jury during deliberations as a harmless "trial...
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