ORDER
EDWARD C. REED, Jr., Chief Judge.
On July 30, 1985, this Court granted the petitioner's request for a federal writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The basis for the issuance of the writ was that the petitioner's conviction for murder in 1975 was secured as the result of an instruction that shifted to him the burden of proof on the issue of self-defense. The law at that time indicated that any shifting of the burden of proof on an element...
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