PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal illustrates the truism that, regardless of the mitigation strategy that capital defense lawyers choose, they are often "damned if they do, and damned if they don't" when their clients later assert claims of ineffective assistance of counsel during collateral review. After he confessed to butchering an elderly woman with a survival knife and shooting her defenseless son at point-blank range with a sawed-off shotgun during a random...
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