State of Alabama v. Jay's Charity Bingo Alabama STEM Education, Inc. and Bobby R. St. John (Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court, Bessemer Division: CV-23-28).

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• rejecting as unreasonable Illinois Supreme Court’s determination that the sentencing judge considered mitigating evidence of the petitioner’s traumatic history when sentencing court used language of exclusion in rejecting that evidence
• “An attorney’s investigation need not be unlimited in scope or unerring in execution, but merely reasonable.”
• district court properly vacated Wright’s death sentence pursuant to Eddings because the sentencing judge impermissibly refused to consider proposed mitigating evidence related to Wright’s back- ground
• re- jecting as unreasonable Illinois Supreme Court’s determina- tion that the sentencing judge considered mitigating evidence of the petitioner’s traumatic history when sentencing court used language of exclusion in rejecting that evidence
• “deference must be accorded to strategic decisions made by counsel after suitable investigation.”

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