Robert Lewis Collier v. Tony Turpin, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center

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• recognizing, as an aggravating circumstance of murder conviction, the fact that murder victim was police officer
• noting that the district court excused default under Eleventh Circuit precedent after finding that \Collier had demonstrated sufficient cause by the fact that he was represented on his first state habeas petition by trial counsel\
• among other significant deficiencies, trial counsel ineffective for failure “to explore and present readily available expert opinion evidence” concerning defendant’s “diabetes and diffuse organic brain damage”
• “Counsel presented no more than a hollow shell of the testimony necessary for a ‘particularized consideration’ of relevant aspects of the character and record of [a] convicted defendant before the imposition upon him of a sentence of death.”
• “Counsel presented no more than a hollow shell of the testimony necessary for a ‘particularized consideration of relevant aspects of the character and record of [a] convicted defendant before the imposition upon him of a sentence of death.”
• “In evaluating the probability that Collier’s jury would have rejected the death penalty, we must not forget to balance the aggravating and mitigating factors that would have been before the jury in the absence of his counsels’ errors.”

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