Can a federal judge review the record to determine whether a state court's final resolution of the case was unreasonable?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Cuevas v. Sullivan, Case No. 1:18-cv-01281-NONE-JDP (E.D. Cal. 2020):
court denied the claim on the merits, and accordingly will conduct an independent review of the record to determine whether the state court's final resolution of the case constituted an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law. See Greene v. Lambert, 288 F.3d 1081, 1088-89 (9th Cir. 2002).
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