Patrick James Jeffries v. Tana Wood, Superintendent

KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge,

with whom Judges GOODWIN, BRUNETTI, T.G. NELSON and HAWKINS join, dissenting.

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If you listen closely, perhaps you too can hear what the majority hears: the sounds of silence. Congress said nothing about section 2254(d)’s temporal scope anywhere in Chapter 153 of Title I of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-132, 1996 U.S.C.C.A.N. (110 Stat.) 1214. Under Landgraf v. USI Film Prods., 511 U.S. 244, 280, 114 S.Ct. 1483, 1505, 128 L.Ed.2d 229 (1994), we must therefore inquire whether section 2254(d) has a retroactive effect; if it does…