Legal Opinion
Leonard B. Panther v. Lloyd F. Hames, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 16, 1993No. 92-35526PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Per curiam
Leonard B. Panther appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (1988).
Panther seeks relief from his Alaska conviction for criminally negligent homicide in violation of Alaska Statute 11.41.130(a) (1989). He contends that (1) Alaska’s criminally negligent homicide statute is unconstitutionally vague; (2) the jury instruction defining the term “criminal negligence” violated due process because it relieved the jury of its duty to find the statutory elements of “criminal negligence” as defined in AS 11.81.900(a)(4);…
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