OPINION
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:
Petitioners appeal from the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief. They contend that, at their sentencing for armed robbery of the Sunday worship services at a North Carolina church, the state trial judge impermissibly made references to religion, thereby violating their rights to due process. But the defendants' choice to target a church during weekly services imbued their crime with an undeniably religious character...
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