Counsel failed to object to the capital trial court's multiple misleading and inappropriate comments during jury selection about the uniquely gruesome nature of the evidence and the prosecution's exercise of discretion to seek death only in appropriate cases. Under these circumstances, should Strickland prejudice be found where counsels' cumulative failures to object to the improper comments created a reasonable probability of a different outcome but for counsels' deficient performance?

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