Whether a court evaluating prejudice under Strickland v. Washington must take the State's case as it was presented to the jury or may hypothesize that the jury may have disbelieved the State's case

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether a court evaluating prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), must take the State’s case as it was presented to the jury, as ten state and federal courts have held, or whether the court may instead hypothesize that the jury may have disbelieved the State’s case, as the Maryland Court of Appeals held below. (i)