DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge. Sherman Howard was convicted in 1989 of sexually abusing his daughter when she was a toddler. After appealing through the Illinois state court system and seeking post-conviction relief in Illinois’s courts, he filed this habeas corpus petition. He contends that his appellate counsel was constitutionally defective in her selection of issues to appeal…
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