McMurtrey v. Ryan

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• holding that counsel’s failure to provide effective assistance and trial court’s failure to order a hearing on competency were dispositive, and declining to rule on petitioner’s claim of actual incompetence
• noting that where one issue is dispositive, the court need not address the remaining issues
• observing that state court factual findings are entitled to less deference under pre-AEDPA law
• observing that state court factual findings are entitled to less deference under pre-AEDPA law
• observing that state court factual findings are entitled to less deference under pre-AEDPA law
• setting forth framework for analyzing meaningfulness of nunc pro tunc competency hearing

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