Michael Charlton v. Cecil Davis, Superintendent of the Indiana State Prison

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• “The relevant decision for purposes of our assessment is the decision of the last state court to rule on the merits of the petitioner’s claim.”
• “The relevant decision for purposes of our assessment is the decision of the last state court to rule on the merits of the petitioner’s claim.”
• “A state court need not even be aware of Supreme Court precedent so long as neither the reasoning nor the result of the state-court decision contradicts them.”
• “[E]rroneous instructions on the elements of an offense or the State’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt are a violation of a defendant’s due process right under the Fourteenth Amendment”
• quot- ing 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)
• cita- No. 04-3223 3 tion omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).