Does a federal habeas court have jurisdiction to reexamine state-law determinations on state law questions?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Haynie v. Biter, No. 2:13-cv-1876 TLN DAD P (E.D. Cal. 2015):
not the province of a federal habeas court to reexamine state-court determinations on state-law questions.'"); Wood v. Ryan, 693 F.3d 1104, 1115 (9th Cir. 2012). Accordingly, questions of whether the trial court violated state law in failing to give the lesser-included offense jury instruction and/or whether the appellate court's decision addressing that issue was erroneous under state law are not properly presented to this federal habeas court.
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