Thomas v. Cain

PER CURIAM. *

Michael Thomas, Louisiana state prisoner # 293784, has appealed the district court’s judgment dismissing his application for a writ of habeas corpus, challenging his 1991 conviction for second-degree murder, for which he is serving a sentence of life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence. See State v. Thomas, 620 So.2d 469 (La.Ct.App.1993).

The district court granted a certificate of appealability (“COA”) as to one issue only: whether Thomas’s right to due process was violated by the trial court’s specific-intent instruction.…