Legal Opinion
Anderson v. Harless
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 1, 1982No. 81-2066PublishedCited by 1,519 opinions
1Per curiam
Respondent was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed respondent’s conviction, Peo*5ple v. Harless, 78 Mich. App. 745, 261 N. W. 2d 41 (1977), and the Michigan Supreme Court, on review of the record, denied respondent’s request for relief. App. to Pet. for Cert. 30a.
Respondent then filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U. S. C. § 2254, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. He alleged, inter alia, that the trial court’s instruction on “malice”— a crucial…
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