Jesse Willard v. People of the State of California

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 1987-03-06

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MERRILL, Circuit Judge: Jesse Willard, a state prisoner convicted of robbery, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Willard argues that the state trial court’s erroneous jury instructions denied him due process of law and that his trial counsel’s performance violated his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel. We affi…

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