Randy Lamar Black v. United States

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• recognizing that to satisfy the prejudice prong, a petitioner must 2 Heath v. Jones, 941 F.2d 1126, 1130 (11th Cir. 1991). show a reasonable probability that “but for the deficient performance, the outcome of the appeal would have been different”
• noting that a reasonable attorney in the position of appellate counsel could have concluded a “hypothetical scenario” considered in a case “was simply dicta and did not provide binding authority”
• “If the legal principle at issue is unsettled, . . . counsel will not have rendered deficient performance for an error in judgment.”
• “[T]he holdings of a prior decision can reach only as far as the facts and circumstances presented to the Court in the case which produced the decision.”

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