Wilder v. United States

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Darren Wilder was convicted in March 2006, after a jury trial, of transportation, receipt, and possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252. We affirmed his conviction on direct appeal and noted that the evidence against him was very strong. See United States v. Wilder, 526 F.3d 1, 7-12 (1st Cir.2008), cert. denied, 555 U.S. 1050, 129 S.Ct. 626, 172 L.Ed.2d 618 (2008).

Wilder now appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, in which he claimed, for the first time, that the jury selection process…