Lisa Chamberlin v. Marshall Fisher, Commissioner

GREGG COSTA, Circuit Judge:

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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Even by the standards of capital cases, the double murder in this case was gruesome. It occurred in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where Chamberlin and her then boyfriend, Roger Gillett, had recently moved in with Gillett’s cousin, Vernon Hulett, and Hulett’s girlfriend,…