Leo Kelly, Jr. v. Pamela Withrow, Warden

LIVELY, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal from denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus raises three issues: (1) whether the state prosecutor exercised preemptory challenges during voir dire to exclude black potential jurors solely on account of their race; (2) whether the trial court’s denial of the petitioner’s motion for a change of venue in the face of extensive media coverage of the crime denied the petitioner his right to a trial by an impartial jury; and (3) whether the trial court violated due process and the petitioner’s privilege against compulsory self-incrimination by…