Michael Collins v. Dave Dormire

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• holding defendant did not show prejudice to support ineffective assistance of appellate counsel claim because any evidentiary error was harmless
• stating that to overcome the presumption that counsel’s conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance, a petitioner must present evidence that appellate counsel’s failure to raise a claim was not an exercise of sound appellate strategy
• finding eyewitness’s identification of defendant to be reliable when the eyewitness had stood five to six feet away from defendant for a few minutes

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