Gerald A. Amirault v. Michael v. Fair

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• noting that \issues of juror credibility and honesty are determinations 'peculiarly within a trial judge's province' and are accorded great deference\ (quoting Wainwright v. Witt, 469 U.S. 412, 428 (1985))
• stating that a court’s findings of juror credibility merit “great deference”
• recognizing implied bias doc- trine but declining to award relief under circumstances
• applying McDonough where the voir dire questioning should have elicited the relevant information
• no implied bias where juror had blocked her memory of being raped forty years earlier
• no habeas relief despite extensive list of misconduct because petitioner failed to make a showing that fairness of trial compromised

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