Dennis Sochor v. Secretary Department of Corrections

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• holding that a petitioner did not establish the prejudice prong of Strickland in part because there was strong evidence of the aggravating circumstance that the murder was “especially heinous, atrocious, and cruel”
• holding that a petitioner did not establish prejudice in part because “[m]ost of the ... mitigating evidence that [he] produced in the evidentiary hearing was cumulative of evidence produced at the guilt and penalty phases of the trial”
• holding that a petitioner did not establish prejudice in part because “[m]ost of the . . . mitigating evidence that [he] produced in the evidentiary hearing was cumulative of evidence produced at the guilt and penalty phases of the trial”
• holding that a petitioner did not establish prejudice in part because “[m]ost of the . . . mitigating evidence that [he] produced in the evidentiary hearing was cumulative of evidence produced at the guilt and penalty phases of the trial”
• noting the difficulty of showing prejudice as the result of failing to present mitigating evidence in a death penalty case involving a murder “accompanied by torture, rape or kidnapping”
• finding no prejudice in part because “[m]ost of the nonstatutory mitigating evidence that [petitioner] produced in the evidentiary hearing was cumulative of evidence produced at the guilt and penalty phases of the trial”

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