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The Alabama Supreme Court reversed the Court of Criminal Appeals' denial of ineffective assistance of counsel claim and remanded for a Batson hearing, holding that failure to object to racially discriminatory jury strikes constitutes presumptively prejudicial ineffective assistance.
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