Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. You should write an incorrect option. Even though there exist multiple wrong answers, we only need a single wrong answer. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Problem:a year to file Edwards's fifty-one page federal habeas petition. War-droup accepted full-time employment and allegedly ceased working on Edwards's case four months after he had timely filed Edwards's habeas petition and the limitations period expired. See Mem. Op. at 9. Thus, to the extent that Wardroup "abandoned Edwards," it was after Wardroup had shepherded Edwards's federal habeas petition to court. Further, after he accepted this employment, Wardroup submitted a reply to Texas's response to Edwards's habeas submission, as well as a notice and full and timely briefing to us on his first COA request. It is difficult to see abandonment here, where Wardroup missed no deadlines and filed substantive arguments. See, e.g., Wilkins v. Stephens, 560 Fed.Appx. 299, 304 (5th Cir. 2014) (<HOLDING>). Furthermore, Edwards has not alleged any
Holding statements: (A) holding that evidence was sufficient where inter alia the victim woke up to find the defendant on top of her and engaged in sex (B) holding inter alia that common law claims were preempted (C) holding inter alia that appellant must use local cpiu where available (D) holding no abandonment where inter alia counsel never missed a filing deadline and filed a lengthy petition on petitioners behalf (E) holding that court did not prejudice defendant by limiting his counsel to preestablished limitations on inter alia the scope of crossexamination
Solution:
holding that evidence was sufficient where inter alia the victim woke up to find the defendant on top of her and engaged in sex