Anthony Sully v. Robert Ayers, Jr.

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• finding that “the supposedly impeaching evidence that counsel failed to uncover 10 and present . . . either had no impeachment value or was inculpatory”
• stating that “an 3 ||evidentiary hearing is pointless once the district court has determined that § 2254(d) 4 || precludes habeas relief[]’’
• stating that “an 21 evidentiary hearing is pointless once the district court has determined that § 2254(d) 22 precludes habeas relief[]” (citing Pinholster, 563 U.S. at 203 n.20)
• affirming denial of writ of habeas corpus based, in part, on counsel’s failure to impeach a witness where counsel had already extensively impeached the witness
• stating “an evidentiary 1 || hearing is pointless once the district court has determined that § 2254(d) precludes habeas 2 ||relief’ and citing Pinholster, 563 U.S. at 203, n. 20
• “staggering” aggravating evidence weighed against a conclusion that defendant was prejudiced

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).