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CHAMBERLIN v. FISHER

No. 15-70012.

855 F.3d 657 (2017)

Lisa Jo CHAMBERLIN, Petitioner-Appellee v. Marshall L. FISHER, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed April 27, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Unger Carlyle , Kansas City, MO, Michael James Bentley, Esq. , Michael Leland Cowan , Alicia Kate Margolis, Esq. , Attorney, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, L.L.P., Jackson, MS, for Petitioner-Appellee.

Cameron Leigh Benton , Special Attorney to the Attorney General, Marvin Luther White, Jr., Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Mississippi, for Respondent-Appellant.

Before DAVIS, CLEMENT, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.

A Mississippi jury convicted Lisa Jo Chamberlin of two counts of capital murder and sentenced her to death. The district court granted Chamberlin's petition for writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the state court erred in finding that there was no racial exclusion of jurors at her trial. We affirm.

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