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HARVELL v. NAGLE

No. 94-6573.

58 F.3d 1541 (1995)

Roy Avon HARVELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John E. NAGLE, Warden; Attorney General of the State of Alabama, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 21, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Avon Harvell, Atmore, AL, pro se.

Roger C. Appell, Birmingham, AL, for appellant.

James H. Evans, Atty. Gen., J. Thomas Leverette, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for appellees.

Before KRAVITCH and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and GOODWIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

The sole issue presented in this appeal from the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief is whether the jury instruction on reasonable doubt at Appellant's state trial for murder was constitutionally sufficient.1 We hold that the jury instruction did not violate Appellant's due process rights; accordingly, we AFFIRM.

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