BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, Clayton Libby, a Massachusetts state prisoner serving a life sentence on a 1971 conviction for murder in the first degree, challenges the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In so doing, petitioner primarily contends that the court erred in deeming harmless a jury instruction on the issue of malice which set up an unconstitutional mandatory presumption. See Sandstrom v. Montana,...
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