Cheney v. Washington

OPINION

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

James Cheney claims he was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel because his defense counsel failed to object properly at two points during his trial. This appeal raises the question whether the state court’s decision rejecting this claim was objectively unreasonable. Applying “the doubly deferential judicial review that applies to a Strickland, claim evaluated under the [28 U.S.C.] § 2254(d)(1) standard,” Knowles v. Mirzayance, — U.S.-,-, 129 S.Ct. 1411, 1420, 173 L.Ed.2d 251 (2009), we hold that the state court’s decision was…