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18-8712 John Hummel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied IFP character-and-record death-penalty future-dangerousness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence pretrial-incarceration sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel 1. In Skipper v. South Carolina, 476 U.S. 1 (1986), the trial court ruled as irrelevant the testimony of two jailers and a "regular visitor" that Skip…