Whether the state postconviction court misapplied Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668
(1984), by applying its "strong presumption of reasonable professional assistance " to a watereddown version of petitioner 's ineffective assistance of counsel claim when the actual claim would
arguably rebut the presumption.

Whether in denying petitioner 's claim that he received ineffective assistance of counsel when he
was told by his lawyers that he stood a fair chance of success at trial, which caused him to
decline an offer to plead down to manslaughter, the court misapplied Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U.S.
156 (2012), by not factoring into its assessment of the reasonableness of the advice that counsel
had given up on the most compelling part of their alternative suspect case.

Whether the state postconviction court misapplied Strickland-v-Washington