Legal Opinion
Willis v. Aiken
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 29, 1993No. 92-1098PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, David Willis, seeks federal habeas relief from a conviction entered by an Indiana state court. Mr. Willis submits that his right to due process of law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment has been violated because the state trial court gave an Indiana pattern jury instruction that states, in part, that “the jury is both the judge of the law and of the facts.” The district court dismissed the petition on procedural grounds before reaching the merits. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the judgment of the district court.
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BACKGROUND
In August 1981,…
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