What is the test for a defense based on the amount of marijuana petitioner possessed at the time of his arrest?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Villalobos v. Foulk, No. 2:14-cv-1966-MCE-EFB P (E.D. Cal. 2018):

First, this claim fails insofar as petitioner has failed to adequately plead its contours. See Mayle v. Felix, 545 U.S. 644, 649 (2005) (holding that Rule 2(c) of the Rules Governing Habeas Corpus Cases requires a petitioner to "specify all grounds for relief available to [him]" and to "state the facts supporting each ground."). He does not, for instance, explain what defense the trial court prevented him from raising or cite to any portion of the record which might prove instructive on that point. His petition simply alleges that the trial court erred in ruling that "the defense" was inapplicable. ECF No. 1 at 9. After reviewing the record, the court is unable to find any evidence indicating that the trial court categorically disallowed any defense based on the amount of marijuana petitioner possessed at the time of his arrest. The trial court did, at one point in the early proceedings, state "assuming, for the purposes of argument, he's not doing it for his

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