Jerry Bartlett JONES, Jr., Petitioner-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. Tana WOOD, Respondent-Appellant-Cross-Appellee

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• ineffective assistance where counsel failed to investigate and present circumstantial evidence of alternative murder suspect
• even where 5 evidence is “almost entirely circumstantial and relatively weak,” it may be sufficient to 6 support a conviction
• “[F]ailure to argue an issue in the opening brief does constitute waiver.”
• evidence may be found sufficient to support conviction even where it “was almost entirely circumstantial and relatively weak,” and fact that reviewing court may have reached different result or have reasonable doubt not enough to overcome Jackson’s “high standard”
• evidence may be found sufficient to support conviction even where it “was almost entirely circumstantial and relatively weak,” and fact that reviewing court may have reached different result or have reasonable doubt not enough to overcome Jackson’s “high standard”

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