Donnie Roberts v. Rick Thaler, Director

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• holding that Rule 38.1(i) “constitutes a valid procedural bar to federal habeas relief,” even “in the capital context”
• recognizing that counsel is not required to make futile motions or objections
• recognizing that counsel is not required to make futile motions or objections
• finding counsel cannot reasonably be faulted for failing to object to admissible testimony
• “the failure to lodge futile objections does not qualify as ineffective assistance”
• “the failure to lodge futile objections does not qualify as ineffective assistance”.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).