RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, David Willis, seeks federal habeas relief from a conviction entered by an Indiana state court. Mr. Willis submits that his right to due process of law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment has been violated because the state trial court gave an Indiana pattern jury instruction that states, in part, that "the jury is both the judge of the law and of the facts." The district court dismissed the petition on procedural grounds before...
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