Mark Edward Thompson v. Gary T. Dixon, Warden, Central Prison

OPINION

MORGAN, District Judge:

Petitioner Mark Edward Thompson appeals the dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus in which he challenged a jury instruction given at his capital murder trial. The Petitioner claims the state trial court violated his due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment when it instructed the jury that a person is presumed to be sane unless he or she proves otherwise. The district court granted the state of North Carolina’s (“State”) motion for summary judgment, finding the state trial court’s presumption-of-sanity instruction did not in any way…