THOMAS v. BORG

No. 97-16866.

159 F.3d 1147 (1998)

Rodney E. THOMAS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Robert G. BORG; Attorney General, California, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Quin Denvir, Federal Public Defender, and Daniel J. Broderick, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Sacramento, CA, for petitioner-appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, and Susan Rankin Bunting, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for respondents-appellees.

Before: BRUNETTI, TASHIMA, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.


BRUNETTI, Circuit Judge:

Rodney E. Thomas (Thomas) was convicted by a Kern County, California jury of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and false imprisonment. He now appeals the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he was deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a jury drawn from a representative cross section of the community, and that his trial counsel provided him with ineffective assistance by failing...

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