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John Lone Eagle was found strangled to death with a telephone cord in his Carmichael bedroom. About $4,000 was missing from his bedroom. DNA consistent with the genetic profile of defendant Zang Her was found in three places in the house—on a latex glove that was tangled in the telephone cord around John Lone Eagle’s neck, on a pillow in the same bedroom, and in a blood spot on the entryway floor to the house. Defendant was also linked to John Lone Eagle through defendant’s wife and an acquaintance. A jury found defendant guilty of first degree burglary and first degree murder with the special circumstance that the murder was committed *979 during a burglary. The jury did not reach a verdict on whether defendant personally used a weapon (the telephone cord).

Defendant appeals from the resulting prison sentence of life without the possibility of parole, raising three issues relating to the evidence and the jury’s composition. Finding no merit in these contentions, we affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

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The Prosecution’s Case

John Lone Eagle operated a business out of his home in which he bought and sold foreclosed homes. He employed four or five women to…