The petitioner, Tom Beavers, was convicted on October 20, 1989, of distributing cocaine. On December 5, 1989, he was sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary and was fined $10,000. He appealed his conviction to the Court of Criminal Appeals. On February 28, 1991, Beavers filed in that court a supplemental brief in which he raised the issue of whether the jury had been properly instructed on "reasonable...
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