Sixth Circuit: Jamal Thomas v. George Stephenson

Ambiguity in state statute of Assault with Intent to Kill that seems to allow conviction for uncharged conduct, i.e., a potential future deadly assault rather than the charged non-deadly assault is, at most, an error of state law that does not rise to the level of a constitutional violation.

Dissent: Licit conviction for a crime that the deft did not commit rises to the level of extreme malfunction of the state criminal justice system.

http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/18a0161p-06.pdf