Jason Scott Byram v. Jon E. Ozmint, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections Henry Dargan McMaster Attorney General, State of South Carolina

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• holding that trial counsel were not ineffective for failing to obtain adoption records that would have provided additional proof that the petitioner suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome
• holding that trial counsel were not ineffective for failing to obtain adoption records that would have provided additional proof that the petitioner suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome
• recognizing lack of prejudice resulting from counsel’s failure to obtain records, where additional information in those records “would have added little”
• recognizing lack of prejudice resulting from counsel’s failure to obtain records, where additional information in those records “would have added little”
• concluding performance was not deficient based on failure to offer expert testimony where counsel concluded testimony could have harmed defense
• concluding there was no prejudice resulting from failure to present additional information about Byram’s childhood, where “the evidence presented before the [state post-conviction relief] court was largely cumulative”

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