Nova v. Cain

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• upholding as reasonable the Michigan Court of Appeals’s conclusion that defense counsel’s failure to call an expert witness on eyewitness identification did not satisfy Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984
• absence of identification expert not prejudicial where counsel was able to cross- examine identifying witness and present alibi witnesses
• failure to call expert witness on eyewitness identification did not constitute constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel where counsel presented alibi witnesses and cross-examined eyewitnesses
• in addition to identification, Dorch’s pretrial cellmate testified that Dorch admitted to shooting a man in the face during a crack house robbery using a pistol equipped with a potato as a silencer.

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