Billy Woodard v. Willis Sargent, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction

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• prejudice resulted from counsel’s failure to request instruction based on defendant’s clean police record — a statutory mitigating circumstance — where only two aggravating circumstances found
• failure to submit applicable mitigating circumstance to jury for consideration prejudiced defendant

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