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Carl MARKS, Petitioner—Appellant, v. A.A. LAMARQUE, Warden, Respondent—Appellee.
    No. 03-55843.
    D.C. No. CV-02-01273-RT(RZ).
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Argued and Submitted Feb. 4, 2004.
    Decided Feb. 17, 2004.
    Sean Kennedy, Appointed Federal Public Defender, FPDCA—federal Public Defender’s Office (Los Angeles), Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    Stephanie C. Brenan, Deputy Atty. Gen., AGCA—Office of the California, Attorney General (LA), Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent-Appellee.
    Before KOZINSKI, O’SCANNLAIN and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.
   MEMORANDUM

Three witnesses identified petitioner as a participant in the victim’s robbery-murder. One of these witnesses further testified that petitioner ordered his accomplice to “bust on” the victim, at which point the accomplice fatally shot the victim. We need not decide whether the admission of petitioner’s confession was erroneous, because in light of the witnesses’ testimony, the confession did not have a “substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury’s verdict.” Brecht v. Abrahamson, 507 U.S. 619, 623, 113 S.Ct. 1710, 123 L.Ed.2d 353 (1993). Any error was therefore harmless.

AFFIRMED. 
      
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