Emile Pierre Duhamel v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

In this capital murder case, Emile Pierre Duhamel was convicted by the state of Texas of murdering Jonette Edmunds in the course of committing aggravated sexual assault. He was sentenced to death. In these habeas proceedings that have followed, the Texas courts have upheld this sentence. The federal district court, however, granted Duhamel’s petition for habe-as relief and commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. The district court found that Duhamel’s trial attorney was ineffective in failing to develop and present mitigating evidence. It also found…