SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Michael Franklin, who is African-American, is serving a 23-year sentence in Illinois for armed robbery. He petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254, claiming that the prosecution violated his right to equal protection by exercising peremptory strikes against two of three African-American members of the first six-person panel of the jury venire. See Batson v. Kentucky,
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