Syed v. Maryland
Petition for certiorari denied on November 25, 2019
Issue: Whether a court evaluating prejudice under Strickland v. Washington must take the state"s case as it was presented to the jury, as 10 state and federal courts have held, or whether the court may instead hypothesize that the jury may have disbelieved the state"s case, as the Maryland Court of Appeals held below.
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