Todd Peterson v. Timothy Douma

How courts have described this case

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• noting that court should only rarely allow parties to modify certificate of ap-pealability by implication
• “[t]he Sixth Amendment does not require counsel ... to press meritless arguments before a court, and it is always good strategy to avoid wasting time or the court’s attention with claims that are going nowhere.”
• usually counsel must ask for an expanded certificate before briefing additional issues
• usually counsel must ask for an expanded certificate before briefing additional issues

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).