Bush

MEMORANDUM **

Anthony Bush (“Bush”) appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (“Section 2254”) petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Bush claims that the State violated his constitutional rights via (1) the trial court’s failure to require that the prosecutor provide a race-neutral explanation for using a peremptory challenge to excuse the last African-American juror from the alternate jury panel, (2) the trial court’s admission into evidence of irrelevant and prejudicial excerpts from letters authored by Bush and the prosecutor’s use of those excerpts to comment improperly on Bush’s failure to testify at trial, (8) the trial court’s exclusion of Bush’s trial counsel from an in camera proceeding in which the court decided that the identity of two confidential informants would not be disclosed and (4) the state appellate court’s denial of access by Bush’s appellate counsel to the sealed record of the in camera proceeding. We affirm the district court’s denial of the writ.

Under Section 2254(d) a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a petitioner in custody pursuant to a State court judgment is to be granted only if that judgment resulted

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