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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.