Gwendolyn Kathy Watkins v. Betty Kassulke, Warden, Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women, Pewee Valley, Kentucky

ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge.

Gwendolyn Watkins, a prisoner in the Kentucky penal system, appeals the district court’s denial of her habeas corpus petition filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We agree with the district court that the consent of Watkins’s counsel to a mistrial disposes of her double jeopardy argument and the related claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. Accordingly, we affirm the denial of habeas relief.

I. Facts

A Kentucky grand jury indicted Watkins in May of 1988 on three felony counts involving theft, bail-jumping, and repeat felony offender status. On February 8,…