United States Fifth Circuit

Denial of habeas relief on a conviction for murder and additional offenses is affirmed where a state-habeas court's decision -- that defendant's lead trial counsel was not ineffective at the trial's punishment phase for either his investigation of, or decision not to present, mitigating evidence concerning his mental-health history -- was not erroneous under the AEDPA's highly deferential standard of review.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/21/2006
• Published 11/21/2006

Judges

• RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKSDALE, BENAVIDES and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• George McCall Secrest, Jr., Jani J. Maselli (argued), Bennett & Secrest, Houston, TX, for St. Aubin., Marta Rew McLaughlin (argued), Austin, TX, for Quarterman.