Hawkins v. Coyle

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• noting that arguing residual doubt at mitigation was a “strategy endorsed” by the Supreme Court and the Ohio Supreme Court at the time of defendant’s trial in 1989
• noting when a prisoner “‘properly raised a claim in state court, yet that court did not review the claim’s merits, AEDPA deference does not apply, and the federal habeas court reviews legal issues de novo’”
• “[I]f appellant’s arguments are considered on the merits, appellant has failed to satisfy his burden of establishing ineffective assistance under ... [Strickland].”
• “Where the state court disposes of a Federal constitutional claim with little-to-no articulated analysis of the constitutional issue, this circuit applies a modified form of AEDPA deference.”

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