Burt Lancaster v. Linda Metrish

I respectfully dissent from the majority’s decision because Lancaster has not overcome AEDPA’s very high standard to establish that the Michigan Court of Appeals’s determination was an unreasonable application of or contrary to Supreme Court precedent. Before obtaining habeas relief from a federal court, “a state prisoner must show that the state court’s ruling on the claim being presented in federal court was so lacking in justification that there was an error well understood and comprehended in existing law beyond any possibility for fairminded disagreement.” Harrington v. Richter, — U.S.…