Wainwright v. Boykins

How later courts describe this case

• holding no prejudice shown where attorney failed to talk to all of the State's witnesses and did not seek funds for an investigator
• holding state's failure to raise in district court arguments that petitioner had both failed to exhaust State remedies with regard to constitutional claim and waived that claim through procedural default barred state from prevailing on that claim in the Court of Appeals
• state's failure to raise procedural default in district court precludes state from raising waiver issue in court of appeals
• defendant in his pro se brief argued that it made sense to kill and "eliminate the only possible witness to the crime of kidnapping, aggravated robbery and sexual assault," and we held this to be heinous and depraved
• impact of age twenty minimized by extent and duration of defendant’s participation in murder where defendant raped the victim two times, held her captive for several hours, inflicted great physical and emotional pain, and buried her, possibly while she was still alive