Craig F. Weighall v. Diane Middle

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• holding counsel’s failure to request additional self-defense instruction not unreasonable because evidence, other instruction, and counsel’s closing argument put issue squarely before jury
• affirming under Williams standard even though the district court used the “reasonable jurist” standard
• rejecting ineffective-assistance claim based on failure 4 to request specific instruction where combination of correct general instruction and closing 5 argument “put the issue [of self-defense] squarely before the jury”
• “... for a state court’s application of federal law to be unreasonable, it must have been clearly erroneous.”
• defense counsel’s failure to 16 request jury instruction not prejudicial where the argument, evidence, and general instructions all 17 put before the jury the specific issue that would have been addressed by the omitted instruction

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