The following excerpt is from Cummings v. Martel, 796 F.3d 1135 (9th Cir. 2015):
Wong v. Belmontes, 558 U.S. 15, 26, 130 S.Ct. 383, 175 L.Ed.2d 328 (2009) (per curiam) (noting that a reviewing court must consider all the evidencethe good and the badwhen evaluating prejudice). Had Cummings's counsel gone beyond a sterile life history presentation, the prosecution could have countered with evidence that Cummings assaulted two prison guards and wrote a letter announcing his intention to shoot pigs eighteen months before Verna's murder.
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