passion-provocation

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18-5700 Jerry Docaj v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions manslaughter miranda-rights passion-provocation sixth-amendment Mr. Docaj seeks leave to appeal the following issues: 1) Whether the jury instruction on passion/provocation manslaughter misstated the law, unconsti…