The following excerpt is from Poyson v. Ryan, D.C. No. 2:04-cv-00534-NVW, No. 10-99005 (9th Cir. 2013):
Recently, in Lopez v. Ryan, 630 F.3d 1198 (9th Cir. 2011), we declined to presume from Arizona case law alone that "a tacit causation rule underpinned the state court's decision" in the case at hand. Id. at 1203. Rather than "infer[ring] unconstitutional reasoning from judicial silence,"
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