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WOODS v. SOLEM

No. 88-5341.

891 F.2d 196 (1989)

Wayne G. WOODS, Appellant, v. Herman SOLEM, Warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary; & Roger Tellinghuisen, Attorney General of the State of South Dakota, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 6, 1989.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 10, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frances R. Becker, Rapid City, S.D., for appellant.

Richard D. Coit, Pierre, S.D., for appellees.

Before JOHN R. GIBSON, and MAGILL, Circuit Judges, and HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 10, 1990.

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Wayne Woods, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, appeals from the district court's1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982). Woods challenges the trial court's refusal to issue a jury instruction defining self-defense and justification. The two issues in this...

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