Brian Bourne v. Cindi Curtin

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• holding that habeas petitioner was “not entitled to an evidentiary hearing” where the state court “considered” petitioner’s claim “on the merits”
• stating that the “right to personal presence at all critical stages of the trial” is “generally subject to harmless-error analysis”
• “Because the state court considered [petitioner’s] ineffectiveness argument on the merits, ... [petitioner] is not entitled to an evidentiary hearing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).