Bruce Edwin Callins v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

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• “Where a state appellate court has conducted a thoughtful review of the evidence . . . its determination is entitled to great deference.”
• “Where a state appellate court has conducted a thoughtful review of the evidence . . . its determination is entitled to great deference.”
• “the wantonness of the murder and Callins’ violent escapades after it ... would have overwhelmed the minimal mitigating evidence that Callins now argues should have been introduced at the capital sentencing phase”

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