Rahsaan Taylor v. Wendy Kelley

SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.

Rahsaan Taylor.petitions for federal ha-beas relief from a March 2010 Arkansas state court conviction for capital felony murder based on ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to present sufficient evidence at trial that Taylor was incapable of running at the time police witnesses testified that Taylor ran from them. The Arkansas Supreme Court found that Taylor had not been prejudiced by the failure to present such evidence. The district court found the Arkansas Supreme Court’s analysis to be reasonable and denied the petition. 1 We affirm.

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On October 31, 2007,…