Aaron J. Connell v. Emily J. Barker

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• “Counsel only pursued this sentence-focused strategy after discussing it with Hightower and gaining his approval.”
• “Counsel testified . . . that their strategy was to save Hightower’s life, rather than to seek an acquittal. This was a reasonable strategic choice, given that Hightower confessed to the murders . . . .”
• “We recently decided in Hicks . . . that Ake errors are subject to harmless Netherland, 79 F.3d 1386, 1388 (4th Cir. 1996); Brewer v. Reynolds, 51 F.3d 1519, 1529 (10th Cir. 1995); Starr v. Lockhart, 23 F.3d 1280, 1291 (8th Cir. 1994

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