Dwayne Ballinger, Jr. v. John Prelesnik

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• concluding that habeas petitioner could not show prejudice from counsel’s failure to call an alibi witness where two eyewitnesses positively identified the petitioner as the perpetrator
• concluding that habeas petitioner could not show prejudice from counsel’s failure to call an alibi witness where two eyewitnesses positively identified the petitioner as the perpetrator
• holding that the rule for habeas review in Brown v. Smith, 551 F.3d 424 (6th Cir. 2008), had been called into doubt by Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86 (2011), even though Robinson v. Howes, 663 F.3d 819, 823& n.2 (6th Cir. 2011
• treating state-court rejection of ineffective assistance of counsel claim as a merits adjudication even though state court of appeals refused to remand for an evidentiary hearing on the claim
• “While allowing a petitioner to supplement an otherwise sparse trial court record may be appealing, especially where he diligently sought to do so in state court, the plain language of Pinholster and Harrington precludes it.”
• “While allowing a petitioner to supplement an otherwise sparse trial court record may be appealing, especially where he diligently sought to do so in state court, the plain language of Pinholster and Harrington 19 precludes it.”

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