Druery v. Thaler

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• \This court has held that '[n]o Supreme Court or Circuit precedent constitutionally requires that Texas's mitigation special issue be assigned a burden of proof.' \ (quoting Rowell v. Dretke, 398 F.3d 370 , 378 (5th Cir. 2005) )
• applying the invited error rule in a federal habeas context
• “When our review is governed by AEDPA — as is the case here — our review of the state court’s resolution of the ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim is ‘doubly deferential,’ since the question is ‘whether the state court’s application of the Strickland standard was unreasonable.’ ”

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