Louisell v. Director of Iowa Department of Corrections

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• jury instruction must create fundamental defect that results in complete miscarriage of justice or omission inconsistent with basic demands of fair trial to warrant habeas relief
• “Habeas corpus relief may be granted only when an erroneous jury instruction constituted a fundamental defect that resulted in a complete miscarriage of justice, or an omission inconsistent with rudimentary demands of a fair trial.” (internal quotations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).