Ronald Ruhl v. Marcus Hardy

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• summarizing that to establish ineffective assistance of counsel, a defendant must show, in part, that \there is a reasonable probability that counsel's errors affected the outcome of the proceeding.\
• declining to decide “which issues must be reviewed under AEDPA’s deferential standard and which should be reviewed under the pre-AEDPA de novo standard” because-petitioner’s claim failed even under de novo review
• declining to decide “which issues must be reviewed under AEDPA’s deferential standard and which should be reviewed under the pre‐AEDPA de novo standard” be‐ cause petitioner’s claim failed even under de novo review
• citing, inter alia, Waddington v. Sarausad, 555 U.S. 179, 192 n.5 (2009)
• no constitutional error where defendant was denied opportunity to present testimony from witness that unavailable third-party declarant had confessed to crime
• no ineffective assistance where defense counsel failed to introduce testimony suggesting that accomplice killed victim, because it was consistent with government’s theory that petitioner helped accomplice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).