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- Title: Duckett V. Mullin
- Author : Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 04, 2002
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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Robert Don Duckett, an Oklahoma state prisoner convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death, appeals the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. This court granted Duckett a certificate of appealability ("COA") pursuant to 28 U. S. C. § 2253(c) with respect to five of his claims of legal error: (1) that the conduct and comments of the state prosecutor deprived him of a fair trial; (2) that trial counsel's failure to investigate and present mitigating evidence deprived him of effective assistance of counsel; (3) that the federal district court erred by refusing to provide him funds with which to retain an expert witness for the evidentiary hearing conducted by the court; (4) that the admission into evidence of a videotape of the murder scene deprived him of a fair and impartial jury; and (5) that the application of the "murder to avoid arrest" aggravating circumstance deprived him of a fair trial. Having studied this matter closely, we conclude that Duckett is not entitled to habeas relief on any of these claims. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U. S. C. §§ 1291 and 2253, we affirm.