Love v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• holding that counsel’s decision not to pursue additional psychological testing was within reasonable professional judgment, after initial tests revealed no mitigating psychiatric conditions
• concluding that questions regarding expert's conclusions are for jury
• Court has not extended Ake but test is whether defendant was denied basic tools of defense
• consolidation of charges not the subject of assignment of error not considered in passion and prejudice review
• “We have previously recognized that the Virginia Supreme Court has thus provided a constitutionally limited construction of its vileness aggravating factor”
• defendant found to have murdered victim to avoid arrest for rape
• defendant sodomized child victim and used stun gun on victim's penis
• Ake not extended, defendant did not show need for expert