In the Matter of: Edward L. Russakoff

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• concluding that trial counsel’s failure to object to faulty accomplice jury instruction in first-degree murder case constituted ineffective assistance of counsel
• concluding there was a due process violation where erroneous jury instructions created “a strong likelihood the jury convicted [petitioner] as an accomplice to first- degree murder without finding he possessed the specific intent to kill.”

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