Anderson v. Attorney General KS

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• holding that no evidentiary hearing is required if the applicant's allegations are contravened by the existing record
• holding that no evidentiary hearing is required if the applicant’s allegations are contravened by the existing record
• recognizing that an evidentiary hearing is not necessary when “[t]he record refutes the claim of ineffective assistance”
• noting that a district court’s decision to grant or deny an evidentiary hearing in a habeas proceeding is reviewed for an abuse of discretion
• stating that “an evidentiary hearing is unnecessary if the claim can be resolved on the record”
• explaining that a habeas petitioner’s factual allegations must be “specific and particularized, not general or conclusory” in order to demonstrate the state court’s findings were unreasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).