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PHARR v. ISRAEL

No. 80-1216.

629 F.2d 1278 (1980)

Maurice B. PHARR, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Thomas R. ISRAEL, Warden, Defendant-Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 23, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Lukoff, First Asst. Wisconsin State Public Defender, Milwaukee, Wis., for petitioner-appellant.

Chris Heikenen, Wisconsin Dept. of Justice, Madison, Wis., for defendant-respondent.

Before SPRECHER and BAUER, Circuit Judges, and EAST, Senior District Judge.

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-appellant Maurice B. Pharr appeals from the order of the district court dismissing his petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 for a writ of habeas corpus. The sole issue on appeal is whether the state trial court, by instructing the jury that they must find the petitioner not guilty of first degree murder before they could consider lesser included offenses, coerced the jury into a verdict in...

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