Washington for a state court to deny a defendant’s ineffective-counsel claim premised on the theory that, before presenting a defense of consensual sexual relations in a rape prosecution, counsel must secure DNA testing of genetic material obtained from the alleged victim in case it might disclose evidence of somebody else’s DNA; and (2) whether it is necessarily unreasonable under Strickland for a state court to reject such an ineffective-counsel claim where the defendant presents no… [read post]