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143104P.pdf   06/06/2016  Dimetrious Woods  v.  Jeff Norman
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-3104
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Loken and Kelly, Circuit Judges] Prisoner case - Habeas. The Missouri courts' determination that trial counsel's decision not to call Woods' co-defendant to testify was not ineffective assistance of counsel because Woods could not establish the prejudice prong of Strickland in light of the evidence of his guilt was not contrary to or an unreasonable interpretation of clearly established federal law or based on an unreasonable interpretation of the evidence; alleged imprecision in the language the Missouri Court of Appeals used in evaluating the sufficiency of the evidence did not establish the court acted contrary to Strickland as the court accurately cited the Strickland test in other portions of the opinion; Court of Appeals application of the prejudice prong was not unreasonable based on the record.