How does a federal habeas court apply the AEDPA's "conflict of interest" test when confronted by conflicting inferences in the record?

If confronted by a record that supports conflicting inferences, a federal habeas court "must presume-even if it does not affirmatively appear in the record-that the trier of fact resolved any such conflicts in favor of the prosecution, and must defer to that resolution." Id. at 326. Circumstantial evidence and inferences drawn from that evidence may be sufficient to sustain a conviction. Walters v. Maass, 45 F.3d 1355, 1358 (9th Cir. 1995).

After the enactment of the AEDPA, a federal habeas court must apply the standards of

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