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Before Lynch, Chief Judge, Torruella and Stahl, Circuit Judges.

William Jewett, Jr., was convicted by a state court jury in November 1998 of the January 1993 rape and murder of a young woman to whom he offered a ride home after a party. That conviction and the denial of his new trial motion in 2003 were affirmed on appeal by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”). Commonwealth v. Jewett, 813 N.E.2d 452 (Mass. 2004).

Jewett appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, in which he claimed ineffective assistance of both trial and appellate counsel. We affirm the district court, discussing the Supreme Court’s recent opinion on claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in federal collateral attacks on state court convictions. See Harrington v. Richter, 131 S. Ct. 770 (2011).

 
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