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RAMIREZ v. HATCHER

No. 96-16209.

136 F.3d 1209 (1998)

Miguel A. RAMIREZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sherman HATCHER, Warden, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Vacated June 4, 1997.

Resubmitted January 8, 1998.

Decided January 27, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Danice Johnson and Michael Pescetta, Assistant Federal Public Defenders, Las Vegas, Nevada, for petitioner-appellant.

John E. Simmons, Senior Deputy Attorney General, Carson City, Nevada, for respondent-appellee.

Before: REINHARDT, HALL, and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL; Dissent by Judge REINHARDT.

CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge:

Miguel A. Ramirez, a Nevada state prisoner, appeals the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We consider in this opinion Ramirez's challenge to the definition of reasonable doubt in the trial court's jury charge.1 Finding no constitutional error in the trial court's instructions...

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