Shaffer v. Evans

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting argument that counsel should also have attempted to “humanize” his client at closing argument
• rejecting argument that counsel should also have attempted to \humanize\ his client at closing argument
• not violative of Strickland to limit closing argument to an appeal to jury’s merciful instincts
• not violative of Strickland to limit closing argument to an appeal to jury's merciful instincts
• noting gravity of punishment in determining reasonableness

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