OPINION
BARKER, J.
We granted this post-conviction appeal to determine whether there is ineffective assistance of counsel where, at the express instruction of a competent and fully informed defendant, defense counsel does not investigate or present mitigating evidence at the sentencing phase of a capital trial. For the reasons provided herein, we hold that there is not.
BACKGROUND
The petitioner, Edmund Zagorski, was convicted in 1984 of...
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