The following excerpt is from Sissac v. Montgomery, Case No.: 16cv2287-BAS (JLB) (S.D. Cal. 2018):
The state court adjudication of the ineffective assistance of counsel aspect of claim three is also objectively reasonable. As quoted above, the appellate court on direct appeal: "conclude[d]-in light of the strong evidence of Sissac's guilt apart from both the challenged text message evidence and the evidence challenged here-that Sissac has failed to meet his burden of establishing a reasonable probability he would have achieved a more favorable result absent the assumed evidentiary error." (Lodgment No. 5, People v. Sissac, No. D064910, slip op. at 21.)
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