Shawn Ian Lainfiesta v. Christopher Artuz, Superintendent, Greenhaven Corr. Facility Elliot Spitzer, Attorney General

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• recognizing that the arbitrary deprivation of a second attorney of choice is a constitutional violation subject to harmless error analysis
• holding that, in the harmless error inquiry on habeas review, “[t]he burden of persuasion is on the government”
• noting that AEDPA “significantly curtailed the power of federal courts to grant the habeas petitions of state prisoners” (italics omitted)
• holding “temporary .. . deprivation of a second attorney of choice is [not] a structural error”

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