JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.
In this appeal we are asked to determine whether under Michigan law the merger doctrine requires a reduction of a first-degree felony-murder conviction to second-degree murder when the underlying felony is burglary with the intent to commit assault. We hold that it does not. We are also called upon to examine whether the government's mid-trial disclosure of an exculpatory psychological diagnosis violated Brady v. Maryland,
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