Victor Manuel Solis v. Rosie Garcia

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• holding that Teague “barred this Court from changing the law regarding failure to instruct errors in the context of a habeas petition”
• noting that “defendant’s right to adequate jury instructions on his or her theory of the case might, in some cases, constitute an exception to the general rule”
• finding that ambiguous aiding and abetting instructions did not amount to reversible error when other instructions given required the jury to find the defendant acted with the requisite intent
• noting that \the failure of a state court to instruct on a lesser offense in a non-capital case fails to present a federal constitutional question and will not be considered in a federal habeas corpus proceeding\
• noting that “the defendant’s right to adequate jury instructions on his or her theory of the case might, in some circumstances, constitute an exception to the general rule” that such a claim does not present a constitutional question cognizable on federal habeas
• finding no constitutional error in denial of 1 G. Eligibility for a Diversion Hearing 2 In Claim Nine, Petitioner contends that the state courts’ failure to provide Petitioner with 3 a diversion hearing, as available under newly enacted (and retroactively applied

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