Joseph Ambrose v. Raymond Booker

OPINION

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

This case involves Joseph Ambrose’s procedurally defaulted claim challenging the constitutionality of the jury selection computer program in Kent County, Michigan. In April 2001, a Kent County jury convicted Ambrose of armed robbery. At jury selection, Ambrose did not object to the racial composition of the jury venire. In July 2002 — after Ambrose had exhausted his direct appeal — the Grand Rapids Press published a story about a computer glitch in the Kent County software that had systematically excluded African-Americans from the jury pool from April 2001 to…