Andrew Davis v. Wayne Carpenter

How courts have described this case

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• noting that federal courts in the AEDPA context “review the state court’s ‘decision,’ not the court’s intermediate reasoning” (citation omitted)
• “The Supreme Court has never reached the specific question[] … [of] how hard” an attorney must try to obtain an expert
• “The Supreme Court has never reached the specific question[] … [of] how hard” an attorney must try to obtain an expert
• “[S]o long as the state courts reach a decision that reasonably applies Supreme Court precedent— however deficient some of the court’s reasoning might be—we must deny the writ.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).