Brian Jones v. Kim Butler

How courts have described this case

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• applying straightforward Strickland analysis to ineffective assistance claim where defense counsel abandoned impeachment of state witness with prior inconsistent statement he received in pre- trial interview without a prover
• denying habeas relief on a claim involving counsel’s failure to impeach the testimony of a prosecution witness because “[w]e cannot say that [the witness’] testimony would have altered the outcome even if the impeachment had been perfected”
• declining to substitute the judgment of the state court about whether a witness’s recantation was credible as the “decision was within the authority of the Illinois courts and did not implicate a constitutional claim.”
• denying habeas relief on a claim involving counsel’s failure to impeach the testimony of a prosecution witness because “[w]e cannot say that [the witness’] testimony would have altered the outcome even if the impeachment had been perfected”
• claim that state court improperly denied petitioner an evidentiary hearing in post-conviction proceedings, even though couched as a “due process” violation, was not cognizable on federal habeas review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).