Nichols v. Thomas

ORDER

MOYE, District Judge.

The Magistrate’s Report and Recommendation of December 27, 1991 and petitioner’s objections of January 17, 1992 having been read and considered; the court REFUSES to ADOPT said Magistrate’s Report and Recommendation [# 14-1] in whole. The court adopts all portions of the Magistrate’s Report and Recommendation except for the section dealing with petitioner’s first ground for his federal habeas corpus petition, i.e., the trial judge refused to dismiss for cause a juror who was the spouse of the prosecutor’s volunteer investigator.1

The Sixth Amendment to the U.S.…