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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.