Ronnie Parker v. Michael S. Bowersox, Jeremiah W. Nixon

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• holding that counsel's decision not to call an \extremely reluctant\ witness \did not fall outside the wide range of professionally reasonable performance\
• “To perform competently under the Sixth Amendment, counsel is neither required nor even advised to raise every conceivable issue on appeal,” but should focus on the most meritorious issues.
• “A state court's evidentiary rulings can form the basis for federal habeas relief under the due process clause only when they were so conspicuously prejudicial or of such magnitude as to fatally infect the trial and deprive the defendant of due process.”
• “A state court’s evidentiary rulings can form the basis for federal habeas relief under the due process clause only when they were so conspicuously prejudicial or of such magnitude as to fatally infect the trial and deprive the defendant of due process.”
• “A state court’s evidentiary rulings can form the basis for federal habeas relief under the due process clause only when they were so conspicuously prejudicial or of such magnitude as to fatally infect the trial and deprive the defendant of due process.”
• “A state court's evidentiary rulings can form the basis for federal habeas relief under the due process clause only when they were so conspicuously prejudicial or of such magnitude as to fatally infect the trial and deprive the defendant of due process.”

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