Jimmy Don Hall v. Ira Kelso, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “burden-shifting . . . may violate the due process clause protection”
• finding as an exception the rule announced in Sandstrom v. Montana regarding burden shifting instructions
• retroactive application for Francis v. Franklin, 471 U.S. 307, 85 L. Ed. 2d 344, 105 S. Ct. 1965 (1985), and Sandstrom v. Montana, 442 U.S. 510, 61 L. Ed. 2d 39, 99 S. Ct. 2450 (1979), holding burden-shifting jury instructions were unconstitutional
• retroactive application for Francis v. Franklin, 471 U.S. 307, 85 L. Ed. 2d 344, 105 S. Ct. 1965 (1985), and Sandstrom v. Montana, 442 U.S. 510, 61 L. Ed. 2d 39, 99 S. Ct. 2450 (1979), holding burden-shifting jury instructions were unconstitutional

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).