Ron Chris Foster v. Robert L. Johnson, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections

KING, Chief Judge:

Petitioner-Appellant Ron Chris Foster, a Mississippi death-row inmate, appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1994 & Supp. V 1999). He raises three claims on appeal: (1) violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel on the ground that his counsel failed to investigate and to present available mitigating evidence, (2) violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel on the ground that his counsel failed to file a motion to…