Bartley, Ken v. Stanley, Leslie

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• holding that defense counsel 9 It is worth noting that trial counsel acted consistently with this understanding of Rule 3.3(a)(3
• adding that “it needn’t be a 50 percent or greater chance” and, “given that guilt must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, guilty people are often acquitted”
• noting that the first question that arises “[w]hen a defendant’s lawyer failed to interview key actual or potential witnesses . . . . is whether they would have told the lawyer the same thing before trial”
• where state court correctly states Strickland standard, imprecise language in opinion does not necessarily mean it applied an incorrect standard
• “The lawyer could not know how complete or accurate a prospective witness’s statement to the police was without talking to the witness.”
• petitioner’s chance of being acquitted need not be 50 percent or greater

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