Kenneth Allen Stewart v. Secretary, Dept. of Corr.

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• holding that counsel’s investigation was reasonable because they were not informed about any childhood abuse or mistreatment
• concluding that counsel was not ineffective for failing to investigate client’s childhood abuse when client never told him about it and had “indicated just the opposite of poor treatment” (quotation marks and brackets omitted)
• finding no prejudice when the mental health expert retained by defense for trial and sentencing “testified in the state 3.850 hearing that information about [the defendant’s] alleged abuse wouldn’t have made any difference in his final opinion” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding no prejudice when the mental health expert retained by defense for trial and sentencing “testified in the state 3.850 hearing that information about [the defendant’s] alleged abuse wouldn’t have made any difference in his final opinion” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “The Constitution imposes no burden on counsel to scour a defendant’s background for potential [mitigating evidence] given the defendant’s contrary representations . . . .”
• “The Constitution imposes no burden on counsel to scour a defendant’s background for potential [mitigating evidence] given the defendant’s contrary representations .... ”

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