The following excerpt is from Moyer v. Johnson, No. 2:12-cv-01170-JKS (E.D. Cal. 2014):
the law. See Henderson v. Kibbe, 431 U.S. 145, 155 (1977). In those cases, the inquiry is whether the trial court's refusal to give the requested instruction "so infected the entire trial that the resulting conviction violates due process." Id. at 156-57; Estelle, 502 U.S. at 72.
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