Sayre v. Anderson

How courts have described this case

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• affirming the dismissal of a habeas petition where “there [was] no indication of where [the missing witnesses] would have said [the petitioner] was at the time of the offense”
• “Complaints of uncalled witnesses are not favored in federal habeas corpus review because allegations of what a witness would have testified are largely speculative.”
• where only evidence of a missing witness’s testimony is from the defendant, the Court views claims of ineffective assistance with great 8 caution
• the defendant did not identify what favorable testimony uncalled witnesses would have provided
• “When a state court declines to hear a prisoner’s federal claims because the prisoner failed to fulfill a state procedural requirement, federal habeas is generally barred if the state procedural rule is independent and adequate to support the judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).