Jesse Peoples v. Blaine Lafler

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• finding state court resolution of Strickland prejudice unreasonable where the state court “ignored the extent to which the government relied on” false testimony, the impeachment of which “certainly could have led to exoneration”
• “Peoples was deprived of a substantial defense because he had no other way to prove his theory that Harris and Powell conspired to implicate him.”
• “When a state court declines to review the merits of a petitioner’s claim on the ground that it has done so already, it creates no bar to federal habeas review.”
• “In Williams, the Court warned against defining the term by reference to a ‘reasonable jurist’ and held that the question is merely whether the decision was objectively reasonable. More recently, however, the Court re-embraced reference to the jurist[.]” (citations omitted)

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