DueProcess FifthAmendment Punishment
Did the Court of Appeals commit err by affirming the trial court's erroneous denial of additional funds for the defense's DNA Expert to testify at trial as to exculpatory and mitigating findings and critical evidence in violation of this Court's rulings in Ake?
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1. Did the Court of Appeals commit err by affirming the triallcourt's erroneous denial of additional funds for the defenses DNA Expert to testify at trial as to exculpatory and mitigating findings and critical evidence in violation of this Court's:rulings in Ake? 2. Did the Court of Appeals commit err by affirming the trial court's : conviction by holding the numerous and cumulative errors of trial counsel did not violate the petitioner's constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment, when it provided that relief was denied because of those failures of counsel? 3. Was trial counsel ineffective under the Strickland standard of this Court where the Court of Appeals revealed its denial of possible relief due to the failures of counsel at trial:which violated the petitioner's Sixth amendment right to effective assistance of counsel under the United States Constitution? 4. Did the cumulative errors detailed by the Court of Appeals violate the cumulative-error doctrine by "fatally infecting the trial" and depriving the petitioner of a fundamentally fair trial and synergi::i % gistically achieving the critical mass to cast a shadow upon the integrity of the verdict? 5. Is the three consecutive LIFE sentences imposed by the trial court disproportionate to the crime and does it violate the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution against Cruel & Unusual punishment . since the allegations were alleged in..a single event arising out of the same criminal act?