Petitioner then filed an application for leave to appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court, in which he raised the same claims that he raised in the Michigan Court of Appeals. The Michigan Supreme Court denied petitioner leave to appeal on December 28, 2011. People v. Cox, 806 N.W.2d 328 (2011) (table). Petitioner filed his habeas petition on December 28, 2012. (Dkt. 1, Pet.) Cox seeks habeas relief on the following grounds: (1) trial counsel was ineffective when she failed to request an instruction on the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter; (2) trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the pathologist's use of the word "accident" or to request a jury instruction to clarify that the pathologist's use of the term to describe causes of death had a different meaning than the term accident as used as a defense to the murder charge; and (3) the judge's instruction on the defense of accident was deficient because it did not inform the jurors that the prosecution had the burden of disproving petitioner's accident defense.