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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Thomas finds that the district court properly denied a habeas corpus petition in a case in which defendant was sentenced to death after a jury convicted him of murder of one woman and the rape, sodomy and forced oral copulation of another. Defendant claimed that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to challenge a pathologist's qualifications after he was contracted to perform an autopsy in the matter. Affirmed.
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