ROTH, Circuit Judge.
In 1982, Donald Hardcastle was charged by the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office with murder, arson, and burglary. He was tried before a jury in the Court of Common Pleas, convicted on all counts, and sentenced to death. In both his direct appeal and state collateral review proceedings, Hardcastle asserted, inter alia, that the assistant district attorney who conducted the jury selection at his trial exercised her peremptory strikes...
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