Aycox v. Lytle

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• noting that when faced with a state court’s summary decision we are still obliged under AEDPA to conduct an “independent review of the record and pertinent federal law”
• noting that independent review of the record is necessary when a state court has not articulated its reasoning for denying postconviction relief on the merits
• affording deference, under AEDPA, to state court's rejection of claim's merit, despite that court's failure to express its reasoning
• granting deference where \[t]here is no evidence here that the state court did not consider and reach the merits of [the] claim\
• granting deference where \[t]here is no evidence here that the state court did not consider and reach the merits of [the] claim\
• granting deference where “[tjhere is no evidence here that the state court did not consider and reach the merits of [the] claim”

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