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CLAUSELL v. SHERRER

No. 06-4606.

594 F.3d 191 (2010)

James Douglas CLAUSELL, Appellant, v. Lydell SHERRER; The Attorney General of the State of New Jersey.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Opinion Filed: February 5, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Gibbons, Esquire, Toms River, NJ, for Appellant.

Robert D. Bernardi, Esquire, Jennifer B. Paszkiewicz, Esquire, Burlington County Prosecutor's Office, Mount Holly, NJ, for Appellees.

Before: AMBRO, GARTH and ROTH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

GARTH, Circuit Judge:

Appellant James Douglas Clausell appeals for a new trial from the order of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey which denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for writ of habeas corpus. Clausell claims that his counsel was constitutionally ineffective in failing to object to the prosecutor's peremptory challenges to Afro-American and/or Hispanic venirepersons. We will affirm.

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