W.S., Father of S.S., Minor Child v. Department of Children and Families

How courts have described this case

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• stating “a federal court reviewing a state conviction in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding may consider only those claims which the petitioner has presented to the state court” (quoting Arnold v. Dormire, 675 F.3d 1082, 1086 (8th Cir. 2012))
• “Trial counsel has a duty to conduct a reasonable investigation or to make a reasonable determination that an investigation is unnecessary.”
• “When counsel makes strategic choices after a thorough investigation of law and facts, those decisions are ‘virtually unchallengeable.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).