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BARNSTABLE, Mass. -- A judge has denied a new trial for a black garbage man convicted in the murder of a white fashion writer, rejecting the defense's claim that the jury's verdict was tainted by racism.

Christopher McCowen was convicted in the 2002 rape and fatal stabbing of Christa Worthington, a writer who had covered fashion in New York and Paris before moving to the small Cape Cod town of Truro.

After McCowen's conviction in November 2006, three jurors complained that several other jurors made disparaging racial remarks about McCowen and blacks in general during deliberations.

But Judge Gary Nickerson ruled today that McCowen's conviction should stand.

-- The Associated Press

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