149 F. Supp. 2d 523 - Wright v. Cowan’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Coleman v. Thompson · Gregg v. Georgia · Teague v. Lane
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“[T]he judge specifically stated that he could discern no mitigating factors except for [Wright’s] extreme emotional disturbance at the time he committed the offense. But [Wright] presented evidence of a horrible childhood; surely that qualifies as mitigation. If the judge considered this evidence, as he was required to do, why would he say that no mitigating factors existed besides [Wright’s] emotional disturbance at the time of the crime? Simply put, he would not. He might find the mitigation of little weight, but he would not say that it did not exist. To derive any other meaning from his plain words requires tortuous reasoning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Wright v. Walls
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