Sturgeon v. Chandler

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the state court “effectively reached” the merits of the habeas petitioner’s competency claim when it decided his ineffective assistance of appellate counsel claim
• holding that the state court, by deciding the merits of a state prisoner’s competency claim, “effectively reached” the merits of the prisoner’s ineffective assistance of appellate counsel claim
• concluding that an ineffective-assistance claim was procedurally defaulted where the state court determined that the petitioner had waived the claim by failing to raise it on direct appeal
• holding that state court’s evaluation of competency hearing in context of ineffective assistance claim effectively reached merits of related due process claim based on lack of competency hearing
• explaining that “the merits were effectively reached” for a federal due process claim because the state court ana- lyzed another issue—competency to stand trial—with the same standard when resolving petitioner’s ineffective assis- tance claim
• explaining the merits of a claim are “effectively reached” by the state court where an issue is addressed on the merits in the context of one claim but would not be decided any differently in the context of another claim

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