Menendez v. Terhune

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a state court’s determination under state law of the appropriateness of an instruction “cannot form the basis for federal habeas relief”
• agreeing with state court’s finding that evidence did not support imperfect 27 self-defense instruction under California law and concluding that “[c]onsequently, the state court’s decision was not error, let alone a violation of due process”
• due process cannot be violated if 11 || the omitted instruction is not supported by the trial evidence
• \Any error in [a] state court's determination of whether state law allowed for an instruction ... cannot form the basis for federal habeas relief.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).