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051715P.pdf   11/29/2005  Ronald Scarberry  v.  State of Iowa
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-1715
   Southern District of Iowa   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bowman, Author, with Arnold, and Murphy, Circuit Judges]
   Prisoner case - habeas case. District court erred in granting habeas
   relief on Scarberry's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel; Iowa
   courts did not unreasonably apply Strickland in concluding that the
   performance of Scarberry's trial and appellate counsel was not
   professionally unreasonable when counsel failed to invoke the Sixth
   Amendment in challenging the admission of Scarberry's statements;
   alternatively, if counsel's actions were erroneous, the error did not
   prejudice Scarberry because the evidence of his guilty was compelling
   even without the challenged evidence.