In RE LAKESIDE RESORT JV, LLC D/B/A MARGARITAVILLE RESORT LAKE CONROE v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “if some fairminded jurists could agree with the state court’s decision, although others might disagree, federal habeas relief must be denied”
• explaining that “largely” means “chiefly,” “mostly,” or “more . . . than not”
• stating that postconviction proceeding evidence is largely cumulative of that presented at trial “when it tells a more detailed version of the same story told at trial or provides more or better examples or am- plifies the themes presented to the jury”
• finding no prejudice where “the basic story of his troubled, abusive childhood was nonetheless known to the sentencing court,” even if postconviction counsel presented “more details” and “different examples” (cleaned up)
• “The cumulative nature of [the mitigating] evidence weakens its usefulness to [the capital habeas petitioner] on the prejudice inquiry.”
• “The cumulative nature of [the mitigating] evidence weakens its usefulness to [the capital habeas petitioner] on the prejudice inquiry.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).