PANTHER v. HAMES

No. 92-35526.

991 F.2d 576 (1993)

Leonard B. PANTHER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Lloyd F. HAMES, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Merle Cowan, Cowan & Gerry, Kenai, AK, Walter Share, Seattle, WA, for petitioner-appellant.

Nancy R. Simel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, AK, for respondent-appellee.

Before: WRIGHT, THOMPSON and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Leonard B. Panther appeals the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (1988).

Panther seeks relief from his Alaska conviction for criminally negligent homicide in violation of Alaska Statute 11.41.130(a) (1989). He contends that (1) Alaska's criminally negligent homicide statute is unconstitutionally vague; (2) the jury instruction defining the term "criminal negligence...

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