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HOUSE v. LAVOIE

No. 86-8754.

843 F.2d 474 (1988)

Weyman H. HOUSE, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. Bob L. LAVOIE, Warden, Dodge County Correctional Institute, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 27, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce S. Harvey, Harvey & Jarnagin, Atlanta, Ga., for petitioner-appellant.

Susan V. Boleyn, State Law Dept., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent-appellee.

Before RONEY, Chief Judge, ANDERSON and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Weyman H. ("Bunky") House, Jr. was convicted of murdering Michael Bradley Turnipseed in Georgia and sentenced to life imprisonment. The sole issue on appeal from a denial of federal habeas corpus relief is whether the state trial court's instruction to the jury shifted the burden of persuasion to the defendant on malice and intent, in violation of Sandstrom v. Montana, 442 U.S. 510, 99 S.Ct. 2450, 61 L.Ed.2d 39 (1979...

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