Thomas Dean Stevens v. Walter D. Zant, Warden Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center

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• counsel not ineffective in deciding to not introduce evidence from client’s past that could generate “appreciable sympathy from a jury”; potential detailed prosecution inquiry into client’s acts of sodomy could have been “highly prejudicial”

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