HULL, Circuit Judge:
Florida death row inmate Leroy Pooler appeals the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Pooler argues that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective in the penalty phase of his murder trial for (1) failing to discover that certain information Pooler himself told counsel about his background was false, and (2) relying on court-appointed competency experts to testify instead of retaining...
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