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DRINKWATER v. GAGNON

No. 80-C-996.

521 F.Supp. 1309 (1981)

Willie Lee DRINKWATER, Petitioner, v. John R. GAGNON and Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin, Respondents.

United States District Court, E. D. Wisconsin.

September 11, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Waring R. Fincke, Shellow & Shellow, Milwaukee, Wis., for petitioner.

Bronson C. LaFollette, Wis. Atty. Gen. by Mary V. Bowman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Madison, Wis., for respondents.

DECISION and ORDER

MYRON L. GORDON, Chief Judge.

In his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, Willie Lee Drinkwater challenges his convictions for armed robbery and attempted murder, party to a crime, on the grounds that the trial court improperly instructed the jury that it could presume the crucial element of intent from Mr. Drinkwater's acts. The Supreme Court found a similar instruction unconstitutional in Sandstrom v. Montana,

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