United States v. Thomas Robertson

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How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “an unreasonable application is different from an incorrect one.”
• disregarding evidence not presented to the state court in deciding whether the state court’s decision was contrary to federal law
• disregarding evidence not presented to the state court in deciding whether the state court’s decision was contrary to federal law
• “For purposes of distinguishing between the rule of Strickland and that of Cronic, this difference is not of degree but of kind.”
• “A federal habeas court may issue the writ under the ‘contrary to’ clause if the state court applies a rule different from the governing law set forth in [Supreme Court] cases____”
• for the test to apply, the attorney’s failure must be complete

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