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132210P.pdf 06/05/2014 Richard Bilauski v. Troy Steele
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 13-2210
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Murphy and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - habeas. Even if the court were to conclude that the
Missouri Court of Appeals unreasonably determined that direct appeal
counsel's performance was constitutionally defective for failing to raise
a Faretta issue, it was not unreasonable for that court to determine that
Bilauski's evidence fell short of meeting Strickland's standard; on the
record before the Missouri Court of Appeals, that court did not
unreasonably determine that Bilauski had failed to invoke clearly and
unequivocally the right to self-representation.