UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Marcos CRUZ-MENDOZA, Defendant-Appellant

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• holding that even assuming unreasonable performance by counsel, petitioner not entitled to relief where prejudice cannot be shown by counsel’s errors
• “We now hold that, in the interest of efficiency, where a district judge has issued a COA on some but not all of the issues, we will treat the briefing of an uncertified issue as a request for a COA and first decide whether one should issue.”

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