DECISION and ORDER
MYRON L. GORDON, District Judge.
In this habeas corpus action, the petitioner challenges the constitutionality of the Wisconsin supreme court's ruling that a legally sane defendant charged with first degree murder may not introduce evidence of his diminished mental state at the time of the alleged criminal act to prove his incapacity to form a specific intent to kill. Hughes v. State,
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