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TSOUMAS v. STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

Civ. Nos. 78-447-D, 79-5-D.

472 F.Supp. 1134 (1979)

Thomas A. TSOUMAS and David S. Sands v. The STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE and the Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire. Mark C. WENTWORTH v. Unwar J. SAMAHA, in his capacity as Clerk of the Rockingham County Superior Court and Thomas Rath, in his capacity as Attorney General for the State of New Hampshire.

United States District Court, D. New Hampshire.

June 26, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley M. Brown, Manchester, N. H., David J. KillKelley, Laconia, N. H., Thomas R. Watson, Portsmouth, N. H., for Tsoumas and Sands.

Robert Upton, II, Jon Meyer, N. H. Civil Liberties Union, Concord, N. H., for Wentworth.

John C. Boeckeler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Concord, N. H., for respondents.

ORDER AND OPINION

DEVINE, Chief Judge.

These are consolidated habeas corpus petitions (28 U.S.C. § 2254) in each of which the primary issue presented is the correctness of the state trial court's jury instructions on "reasonable doubt".1 The Court has had the opportunity to hear oral argument and review the briefs of counsel together with the trial transcripts.2

Petitioner Wentworth was...

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