What is the test for habeas relief for defective jury instructions in a criminal trial?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Manning v. Lewis, 931 F.2d 897 (9th Cir. 1991):
Habeas relief is warranted for defective jury instructions given in state criminal proceedings only if the "ailing instruction by itself so infected the entire trial that the resulting conviction violates due process." Henderson v. Kibbe, 431 U.S. 145, 154 (1977) (quotation omitted).
Manning first challenges the jury instruction on armed robbery, which was as follows:
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