Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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(6th Cir.1986), cert. denied sub nom. Wood v. McMackin, 479 U.S. 1036, 107 S.Ct. 889, 93 L.Ed.2d 842 (1987); Watters v. Hubbard, 725 F.2d 381, 383 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 837, 105 S.Ct. 133, 83 L.Ed.2d 74 (1984). A. Accidental Homicide Petitioner alleges that the trial court deprived him of his rights to due process of law.and a fair trial by giving incomplete and misleading instructions on accidental homicide. Specifically, petitioner contends that the trial judge did not explain the elements of accidental homicide and removed the concept of innocence in excusable homicide by instructing on negligent, not accidental, homicide. Respondent argues that petitioner is precluded from raising this claim. The Court agrees. Petitioner raised this claim on direct appeal. The Michig ) . Petitioner therefore is barred from raising
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that the federal habeas corpus court could reach the merits of a due process claim even though there was no contemporaneous objection in state court trial where the state habeas corpus court reached the merits rather than rely on the procedural default defense
B. holding that if the state court addresses both the procedural default and the merits of a federal claim in the alternative a federal court should apply the state procedural bar and decline to reach the merits of the claim
C. holding that the cause and prejudice standard applies when a state court relies on the procedural default but also discusses the merits
D. holding that aedpa only applies where the state court adjudicated the constitutional issue on the merits
E. holding that a federal court may excuse a state habeas petitioners procedural default if the petitioner can show cause for the failure to raise the claim and prejudice resulting from such failure
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.