Does federal law support a habeas grant?

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The following excerpt is from Contreras v. Gonzalez, CASE NO. 09-CV-2016 BEN (WVG), Docket No. 1, Docket No. 24 (S.D. Cal. 2011):

federal law does not support a habeas grant, unless the state court's application was "objectively unreasonable." Lockyer v. Andrade, 538 U.S. 63, 75-76 (2003).

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