Talley v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that mitigation evidence “could have been a double-edged sword,” and, therefore, the state court reasonably applied Strickland when it concluded that petitioner could not establish prejudice
• noting that, under Strickland, a court deciding an ineffective assistance claim must consider counsel’s performance in the light of the circumstances at the time of the alleged ineffective assistance
• “‘Clearly established Federal law’ means ‘the holdings, as opposed to the dicta, of the Supreme Court’s decisions as of the time of the relevant state-court decision.’” (alterations adopted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).