Rodney Cox v. Edward R. Donnelly, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility and Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General

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• explaining that a strategic decision is a “conscious, reasonably informed decision made by an attorney with an eye to benefitting his client”
• ineffective assistance for failure to object to unconstitutional intent instruction
• “Although the state courts in this case did not give a full analysis of the ineffectiveness claim before us, we still treat the claim for AEDPA purposes as one that was ‘adjudicated on the merits.’”

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