Whether a state court applies law "contrary to" this Court's precedents under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 when it resolves a coerced-confession claim under a foreign legal standard that is different from the one applied under the U.S. Constitution.

Whether courts may decline to address one of the primary grounds for relief asserted by a habeas petitioner.

Whether a state court violates the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act by applying a legal standard different from that required by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments in evaluating whether a confession was coerced through undercover police techniques involving threats of violence, and whether appellate courts may decline to address a habeas petitioner's primary claim regarding the involuntariness of incriminating statements