Eddie Maes v. John Thomas, Warden and Attorney General of the State of New Mexico

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• noting that omitted instructions are “less likely to be prejudicial than a misstatement of the law”
• holding exclusion of evidence regarding witness’s probation status not fundamentally unfair when petitioner presented other evidence of his violent past
• collecting cases and stating, “New Mexico courts have consistently applied the rule that deems all issues abandoned that are not raised in an appellant’s brief in chief”
• “A state court finding of procedural default is adequate if it is strictly or regularly followed.” (quotation omitted)
• “A state conviction may only be set aside in a habeas proceeding on the basis of erroneous jury instructions when the errors had the effect of rendering the trial so fundamentally unfair as to cause a denial of a fair trial.”
• “A state conviction may only be set aside in a habeas proceeding on the basis of erroneous jury instructions when the errors had the effect of rendering the trial so fundamentally unfair as to cause a denial of a fair trial.”

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