The following excerpt is from Santoyo v. Seibel, No. 2:14-cv-0771 DB P (E.D. Cal. 2016):
at 689. This presumption of reasonableness means that the court must "give the attorneys the benefit of the doubt," and must also "affirmatively entertain the range of possible reasons [defense] counsel may have had for proceeding as they did." Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. 170, 196 (2011) (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted).
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