Whether trial counsel's lack of mitigation investigation is excused by a court-manufactured theoretical strategy to argue residual doubt; and whether the Mississippi Supreme Court's application of the "double-edged" sword approach to mitigating evidence conflicts with decisions of this Court and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.

Whether a state court's rejection of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on a hypothetical 'residual doubt' strategy and potential 'double-edged' mitigation evidence violates the Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel