Douglas Christopher Thomas v. John Taylor, Warden, Sussex I State Prison

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• finding that trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying discovery request related to claim that failed as a matter of law
• rejecting petitioner’s efforts to recast a claim concerning the effectiveness of an expert as a Strickland claim
• finding nothing in record to indicate that trial counsel failed adequately to prepare expert, rather expert himself was unprepared
• affirming the district court’s denial of evidentiary hearing on actual innocence when peti- tioner’s requested discovery could not establish his actual innocence

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