Riverside & Ft. Lee Ferry Co. v. Steamship De Witt Clinton

How courts have described this case

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• stating \Giving an instruction inadequate by direct appeal standards does not necessarily result in habeas relief from a state court conviction.\
• “The State’s case against [petitioner] was strong . . . . [Petitioner] himself made it much stronger by testifying after counsel advised him not to testify.”
• reversed 7 on other grounds by Calderon v. 523 U.S. 538 (1998) (“finding no prejudice from the 8 errors considered separately, we also find no cumulative prejudice.”

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