Linton v. Saba

How courts have described this case

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• holding that counsel was not ineffective for declining to pursue third-party killer theories based on speculative evidence
• requiring “clear and convincing evidence” that state court findings of fact are in error
• “We must accept the state court findings of fact unless convinced by clear and convincing evidence that they are in error'.”
• “[A] state-court decision rejecting a sufficiency challenge may not be overturned on federal habeas unless the decision was ‘objectively unreasonable.’” (alteration in original
• “That the SJC applied Latimore rather than Jackson does not diminish its claim .to deference under AEDPA_”
• “a state-court decision rejecting a sufficiency challenge may not be overturned on federal habeas unless the ‘decision was objectively unreasonable’” (quoting Parker, 567 U.S. at 43)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).