Whether the Texas courts' prejudice analysis defies this Court's precedents in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984); Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362 (2000); Wiggins v. Smith, 539 U.S. 510 (2003); and their progeny where the habeas court found that trial counsel performed deficiently in failing to investigate and present available mitigating evidence of petitioner's mental illness—and lied to the trial court about his reasons for this omission—and where the jury assessed maximum sentences.

Whether the Texas courts' prejudice analysis defies this Court's precedents in Strickland v. Washington, Williams v. Taylor, and Wiggins v. Smith