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RIDEAU v. WHITLEY

No. 99-30849.

237 F.3d 472 (2000)

Wilbert RIDEAU, Petitioner-Appellant, v. John P. WHITLEY, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 22, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julian R. Murray, Jr. (argued), Chehardy, Sherman, Ellis, Breslin & Murray, Metairie, LA, George H. Kendall (argued), New York City, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Frederick Wayne Frey (argued), Mike K. Stratton, Robert Bryant, Lake Charles, LA, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before DAVIS, SMITH and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

DENNIS, Circuit Judge:

In this federal habeas corpus case, the petitioner claims that he was the victim of racial discrimination in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, in the selection of the Louisiana grand jury that indicted him for murder.

I.

The petitioner, Wilbert Rideau, was indicted on March 1, 1961, for the capital murder of Julia Ferguson, a bank employee, on February 16, 1961, in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana...

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