Knighton v. Gibson

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the jury found three aggravating circumstances—(1) prior felony convictions, (2) “continuing threat,” and (3
• noting that the jury found three aggravating circumstances— (1) prior felony convictions, (2) “continuing threat,” and (3
• finding that defense eoun- sel’s mitigation theory was extensive, and even though no evidence of organic brain damage was presented, there “[was] no[] ... reasonable probability that, had defense counsel presented ... [such evidence] the jury would have imposed a sentence less than death”
• “Defense counsel . . . did present a great deal of psychiatric evidence at sentencing, although the defense did not do so under the rubric of organic brain damage.”
• no due process violation where admission of other crimes evidence “was relevant to explain the facts surrounding the ... murders”
• “The question presented in these habeas proceedings . . . is not whether [the] evidence was admissible under state law, but instead whether, considered in light of the entire record, its admission resulted in a fundamentally unfair trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).