The following excerpt is from Thompson v. Dickinson, No. 2:11-cv-1318 GEB AC (E.D. Cal. 2014):
petitioner must establish prejudice from appellate counsel's performance, which in turn requires analysis of the strength of the claims that counsel failed to present on appeal. See Moorman v. Ryan, 628 F.3d 1102, 1106-07 (9th Cir. 2010), cert. denied, 132 S.Ct. 346 (2011).
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