Angel

MEMORANDUM ***

Gary Gene Angel appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for habeas corpus relief. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254 . We affirm.

Angel seeks habeas corpus relief on the basis that counsel was ineffective because of a failure to properly pursue plea negotiations. Principally, he alleges that counsel improperly failed to pick up a written plea offer from the prosecutor’s office in time to bi'ing it to Angel’s attention so that he could consider accepting it.

To obtain relief on the basis of ineffective assistance of counsel, Angel must show both that counsel’s representation was deficient, 2 and that there was a “reasonable probability” that in the absence of counsel’s alleged error the result of the proceeding would have been different. 3 The state courts determined that counsel was not ineffective. 4 In order to overturn *908 the state court decisions, we would, at the very least, have to decide that counsel was ineffective. More than that, we would have to determine that the state courts either unreasonably determined the facts, 5 or that they made decisions that were contrary to or an unreasonable application of federal law. 6 And more than that, a…