Carrie C. Wong v. Christine Money, Warden Attorney General of the State of Ohio

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• holding that petitioner procedurally defaulted an “ineffective assistance claim rest[ing] on a theory which [was] separate and distinct from the one previously considered and rejected in state court”
• holding claim must “be presented to the state courts under the same theory in which it is later presented in federal court”
• explaining that a claim must be “presented to the state courts under the same theory in which it is later presented in federal court”
• stating that “the doctrine of exhaustion requires that a claim be presented to the state courts under the same theory in which it is later presented in federal court”
• instructing reviewing courts to “remember that ‘counsel is strongly presumed to have rendered adequate assistance and made all significant decisions in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment’”
• finding no fair presentation of an ineffective-assistance claim where the claim “rests on a theory which is separate and distinct from the one previously considered and rejected in state court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).