Adams v. Cannedy
Petition for certiorari denied on January 21, 2014
Issue: Whether a federal court conducting
habeas corpus review may reject a state
supreme court's summary merits
adjudication of a claim as objectively
unreasonable under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d),
not by considering whether a fairminded
jurist might have denied relief based on
the record submitted to the state supreme
court, but instead by imputing to the
state supreme court asserted flaws in the
reasoning expressed in an earlier decision
on the claim made by a lower court based
on different evidence.