United States v. William Campbell

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• finding no prejudice in failure to present testimony by defendant’s family members, even though it would have humanized him by showing he had been a good son, brother and parent, because the evidence fell short of the quantum of evidence required to show prejudice
• finding no prejudice in failure to present testimony by defendant’s family members, even though it would have humanized him by showing he had been a good son, brother and parent, because the evidence fell short of the quantum of evidence required to show prejudice
• finding no deficient performance despite the absence of mitigating evidence
• court could not say that the additional testimony of family members would have led to a different result and, in addition, the testimony would have opened the door to rebuttal evidence which would have undercut the image the defense would have tried to portray with that evidence

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