DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Dwayne Coulter, an African-American, was convicted by an Illinois jury of the first degree murder of Michael Ridges, a white police officer, and conspiracy to murder another man. During the jury selection process for Coulter's trial, the State used nine of its ten peremptory challenges to exclude African-Americans from the jury. Coulter claims here, in his petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, that the State's exercise of its challenges...
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