Cutler v. Cook

How courts have described this case

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• noting that there is no procedural default if a state court makes a decision on the merits
• instructing that appellate counsel is not ineffective for failing to raise a meritless issue on appeal
• “[petitioner] does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence which the jury found established beyond a reasonable doubt his guilt for dealing cocaine.”
• no fundamental miscarriage of justice when police informant testified “that on the three occasions charged she observed [petitioner] deliver to the police officer what appeared to her to be cocaine and witnessed the officer pay [petitioner] for the contraband”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).