Craig Thomas Bates v. Gary R. McCaughtry Warden, Waupun Correctional Institution

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• whether proof of fact Z’ is necessary to prove element of the crime Z is a matter of state substantive law, not a suffieiency-ofthe-evidence question
• “What is essential to establish an element, like the question whether a given element is necessary, is a question of state law.”

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