ERNEST CHARLES DOWNS, PETITIONER,

v.

MICHAEL D. CREWS, SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.

Citator

Cited By

• Landers v. Warden, The Attorney Gen. OF the State of Ala., 776 F.3d 1288 (11th Cir. 2015)
  …that state-court decisions be given the benefit of the doubt.’ ” Bishop v. Warden, GDCP, 726 F. 3d 1243, 1253 (11th Cir.2013) (quoting Renico v. Lett, 559 U.S. 766, 773, 130 S.Ct. 1855, 176 L.Ed.2d 678 (2010)), cert. denied, - U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 67, 190 L.Ed.2d 34 (2014). Under § 2254(d)(2), “[t]he question ... is not whether a federal court believes the state court’s determination was incorrect but whether that determination was unreasonable — a substantially higher threshold.” Schriro v. Landrigan, 550 U.…
• French v. Warden, Wilcox State Prison, Attorney Gen., State of Ga., 790 F.3d 1259 (11th Cir. 2015)
  …“imposes a highly deferential standard for evaluating state court rulings and demands that state-court decisions be given the benefit of the doubt.” Bishop v. Warden, GDCP, 726 F. 3d 1243, 1253 (11th Cir.2013), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 135 S.Ct. 67, 190 L.Ed.2d 34 (2014) (internal quotation omitted). Pursuant to the AED-PA, this Court is prohibited from granting relief if a state court has adjudicated a claim on the merits unless the state court’s decision “was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable applic…