Ronald A. Williams v. James Price, Superintendent, Sci-Pittsburgh D. Michael Fisher, Attorney General

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALITO, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a District Court order denying a petition for a writ of habe-as corpus filed by Ronald A. Williams. Williams, who is serving a term of life imprisonment in Pennsylvania for first-degree murder, argues that his right to an impartial jury was abridged because the state courts refused in post-trial proceedings to admit certain evidence of racial bias on the part of members of the jury. Williams sought to introduce this evidence to show, among other things, that jurors lied during voir dire when they denied racial prejudice. The…