Williams v. Brush Creek Coal Co.

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• “Thus, for a federal court on habeas review, the harmless inquiry under Brecht is coextensive with Strickland’s prejudice inquiry.”
• where record indicates Petitioner had sufficient intent to kill, petitioner cannot show that “he was prejudiced by counsel's failure to investigate and present psychiatric evidence to pursue a diminished capacity defense”
• “The Third Circuit has clearly held that a failure to give a no-adverse-inference instruction in violation of Carter is not structural error per se, but is subject to a harmless error analysis.”

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