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WATKINS v. KASSULKE

No. 95-5520.

90 F.3d 138 (1996)

Gwendolyn Kathy WATKINS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Betty KASSULKE, Warden, Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women, Pewee Valley, Kentucky, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 18, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marguerite Neill Thomas, Asst. Public Advocate (argued and briefed), Department of Public Advocacy, Frankfort, KY, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Laura Early (briefed), Cindy Goldhill Schwartz (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Frankfort, KY, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before: NORRIS, SILER, and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.

ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge.

Gwendolyn Watkins, a prisoner in the Kentucky penal system, appeals the district court's denial of her habeas corpus petition filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We agree with the district court that the consent of Watkins's counsel to a mistrial disposes of her double jeopardy argument and the related claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. Accordingly, we affirm the denial of habeas relief.

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