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Death Row Appeal

SAN FRANCISCO - Heeding a Supreme Court reversal, the Ninth Circuit blocked habeas relief Thursday for Hector Ayala, a death-row prisoner convicted by a minority-free jury in 1989 for the brutal attempted robbery of a San Diego auto-body shop.

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