Richard Strong v. Donald Roper

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• concluding that trial counsel made a reasonable decision in 2001 to forgo hiring a mitigation specialist and instead develop the capital defendant's mitigation case themselves
• “[I]t is not enough for us to conclude that, in our independent judgment, we would have applied federal law differently from the state court; the state court’s application must have been -8- objectively unreasonable.” (quoting Rousan v. Roper, 436 F.3d 951, 956 (8th Cir. 2006
• discussing Smith v. Phillips, 455 U.S. 209 (1982)

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