BREYER, Circuit Judge.
Appellant David Tavares, who is black, asks the federal courts to set aside his first degree murder conviction by a Massachusetts jury. He argues that the jury was impermissibly biased; a bias shown by the fact that one of the jurors was heard to refer to a black defense witness by the stereotypical name, `Sapphire'. We have reviewed the relevant portions of the state trial record. On the basis of this review, we conclude that Tavares was not...
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