Bond v. Beard

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the state trial court’s post-trial explanation of its Bat-son ruling showed it conducted a step-three analysis, curing its ”inartful[]” statements at trial suggesting that it stopped at step two
• holding the admission of nontestifying co-defendant’s confession in violation of Sixth Amendment harmless where there was defendant’s allegedly coerced confession but also an eyewitness who testified that he was “absolutely certain” that defendant committed the crime
• reviewing the state trial court decision where the state supreme court decision “did not add further reasoning than that provided by the [postconviction trial court]”
• reviewing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision on PCRA review for the first prong of the Strickland analysis, but reviewing the PCRA trial court’s decision for Strickland’s second prong
• finding ineffective assistance of counsel during penalty phase after reviewing school records and hearing testimony on family dynamics and background
• finding deficient performance at sentencing phase where lawyer failed to “inquire meaningfully into [defendant’s] childhood and mental health

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).