A Tennessee jury convicted Anthony Hines of murdering Katherine Jenkins. Decades later, the Sixth Circuit granted habeas relief based on counsel’s failure to investigate and present a theory implicating another man, despite substantial evidence supporting the conviction. The Supreme Court reversed. It held that the Sixth Circuit failed to give the required deference to the state court’s decision under federal habeas law and improperly disregarded the overwhelming evidence of guilt. The Court concluded that the state court’s rejection of Hines’s ineffective-assistance claim was not beyond the range of fairminded disagreement. The judgment granting a new trial was reversed, with Justice Sotomayor dissenting.