The following excerpt is from Cook v. Bayle, 16-1579 (2nd Cir. 2017):
We review de novo a district court's disposition of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Tavarez v. Larkin, 814 F.3d 644, 648 (2d Cir. 2016). When the petitioner presses a claim that was "adjudicated on the merits in state court" proceedings, as here, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA"), Pub. L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214 (codified
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