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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. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.

466 U.S. at 694, 104 S.Ct. 2052. If the deficient performance occurred during sentencing that resulted in the imposition of the death penalty, a petitioner must show that "absent the errors, the sentencer ... would have concluded that the balance of aggravating and mitigating circumstances did not warrant death." Id. at 695. Because the Supreme Court of Virginia applied Strickland in rejecting Powell's ineffectiveness claim, its decision was not "contrary to" clearly established federal law. Thus, review here is limited to whether the Supreme Court of Virginia applied Strickland unreasonably or made an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented. See 2254(d)(1) & (2); see also Bell v. Cone, 535 U.S. 685, 699, 122 S.Ct. 1843, 152 L.Ed.2d 914 (2002) (<HOLDING>). A. Powell first alleges that a more thorough
Holding statements: (A) holding that a plaintiff must show that a statute could never be applied in a valid manner to prevail in a facial attack on its validity (B) holding petitioner must show prejudice to prevail on due process claim (C) holding petitioner has the burden of proof under the strickland test (D) holding that to prevail under 2254 a petitioner must show that the state court applied strickland to the facts of his case in an objectively unreasonable manner (E) holding that a plaintiff must show his belief was objectively reasonable in light of the facts and record presented
Output:
(D)