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103182P.pdf 12/07/2011 Nicholas Hanegan v. Thomas Miller
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-3182
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Bye and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - habeas. Even assuming Hanegan's counsel's trial
performance was deficient for failing to challenge the evidence of the
victim's injury or for failing to introduce evidence that she might have
been psychotic, the district court correctly denied his habeas petition as he
failed to establish that the Iowa Court of Appeals unreasonably applied
Strickland or that the court unreasonably determined that the victim
suffered a serious injury.