MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
At issue in this capital case is whether defense counsel were ineffective in failing to seek a competency hearing at the penalty phase of the defendant's trial, and the corollary question of whether the defendant was in fact incompetent at the time he entered a plea of guilty to the brutal murder of eighteen-year-old Jennifer Robinson. The district court denied habeas relief on both counts. We agree, and accordingly affirm the judgment of the...
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