OPINION
NOONAN, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Bryant Keith Williams seeks federal habeas relief on the basis that the state trial court's misstatement that Williams had pled guilty — a misstatement made immediately before trial commenced and not corrected until the jury began deliberating — violated his due process rights by depriving him of the presumption of innocence, and violated his Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. We agree and...
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