Court Opinion

ID: 9485432
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 11:08:37.855988+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:51:05.853678
License: Public Domain

MERRITT, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the court’s opinion because Article III judges have so little room left for judgment now under the AEDPA standard which a unanimous Supreme Court has recently described as allowing habeas only “as a guard against extreme malfunctions in the state criminal justice systems and not as a means of error correction.” Greene v. Fisher, — U.S. -, 132 S.Ct. 38, 43, 181 L.Ed.2d 336 (2011) (internal quotation marks omitted). Thus, the fact that the petitioner did not receive effective counsel must also rise to the level of an “extreme malfunction” of the system of criminal justice. I assume that this now means not only a constitutional error but also an unconscionable result. The case does not rise to that level.