Legal Opinion
Billy Dewayne Newton v. George R. Million, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 25, 2004No. 01-6116PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSiler, J., joined by Krupansky, J.,
COLE, J. (pp. 879-81), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
SILER, Circuit Judge.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky, on behalf of the warden, appeals the district court’s decision to grant a conditional writ of habeas corpus to Billy Dewayne Newton. Newton’s petition alleges that the state trial court’s failure to instruct the jury on the defense of self-protection against multiple aggressors violated his right to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. For the reasons that follow, we REVERSE the district court’s grant of the writ.
BACKGROUND
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