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072839P.pdf   08/08/2008  Ricky Forsyth  v.  John Ault, II
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-2839
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Beam and Riley, Circuit Judges]
   Prisoner case - habeas. Given the weight of psychiatric opinions and
   counsel's own observations of Forsyth, trial counsel was not objectively
   unreasonable in choosing not to argue that Forsyth's initial delusions that
   his family was still alive rendered him incompetent to stand trial, and the
   Iowa courts' rulings concerning effective assistance of counsel were not
   unreasonable; similarly, counsel's investigation of possible mental illness
   defenses was not objectively unreasonable, and the Iowa courts' rulings
   that Forsyth received effective assistance of counsel were not
   unreasonable.