Brown v. Cain

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

John Ashley Brown, who is sentenced by the state of Louisiana to die, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Brown insists that his conviction and death sentence are rendered unconstitutional by a list of alleged errors, including prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective assistance of counsel, and various defects in the jury instructions. Brown’s most serious contention is that the jury’s instruction on the “reasonable doubt” standard contained constitutional error. After a careful review of our…