Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

How later courts describe this case

• holding Texas special issues need not be accompanied by instructions in order for jury to adequately consider accused’s troubled childhood and his emotional turmoil at the time of offense
• informant’s use of cocaine on several occasions with defendant not outrageous government conduct even if government had directed the conduct
• two misdemeanor convictions for assault sufficient to negate this mitigating circumstance
• "A federal evidentiary hearing on a constitutional claim must be held only where the state court has not provided a hearing, where the petitioner alleges facts which, if proved, would entitle him to relief, and where the record reveals a genuine factual dispute.”